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Friday, 06 May 2005 |
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| CED Trustee Derek C. Bok |
CED, along with Common Good, and the Hudson Institute, hosted a panel discussion on early offers and legal reform. The national coalition, a bi-partisan legal reform initiative, announced that it was filing legal petitions in 12 State Supreme Courts proposing to change the rules governing the contingency fees charged by lawyers in "early offer" settlements in personal injury cases. The proposed change would reduce the fees received by lawyers in these situations, reduce court congestion, and increase the incentive to settle rather than litigate certain liability claims.
Panel members included Derek C. Bok, Professor, Harvard University, JFK School of Government, Michael J. Horowitz, director of Hudson Institute's Project for Civil Justice Reform and Project for International Religious Liberty, Philip K. Howard, Founder and Chair of Common Good, Vice Chairman of Covington & Burling, CED president Charles E. M. Kolb, Jeffrey O'Connell, the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Jeffrey A. Rosen, litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis.
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