slowly evolved to a non-cooperative equilibrium where the use of lawyers becomes nearly universal, despite the fact that … agreeing not to hire lawyers is cheaper and does not appear to alter arbitration outcomes. …

We present a model where divorcing spouses can choose to hire lawyers in their divorce process. Spouses encounter … incentives as in the classical prisoners' dilemma: Despite the zero sum nature of the game and the lawyers' fees, each spouse has … an incentive to hire a lawyer. We propose a simple institutional setting allowing for joint lawyers in order to overcome …

The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics …

We explore the relationship between litigation rates and the number of lawyers, in a typical supplier-induced demand … document that the number of lawyers is positively correlated with different measures of litigation rate. Then, using an … instrumental variables strategy we find that a 10 percent increase of lawyers over population is associated with an increase …

that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers …

comparative and international empirical research on the everyday lives of "public interest lawyers" in the United States and Latin … America, this article stresses significant differences in the ways US and LA lawyers have structured "public interest law …

. Therefore, a digitalized platform where non-lawyers (purchasers, sellers) in a user-friendly interface can draft individual … contracts without lawyers is expected to both increase the companies' labor productivity and to facilitate the evaluation of …