Securities class action lawsuits just might be the schizophrenic stepchildren of our civil litigation system. They are expected to serve two masters at the same time. The first is the goal of obtaining compensation for wronged investors who have suffered losses at the hands of corporate wrongdoers. The second is filling the role of private attorneys general to sanction violators and deter futur...

This study examines how lawsuits against auditors affect the audit pricing and client acceptance strategies of both the audit offices responsible for the failed audit and other audit offices of the same audit firm. We find that non-litigation offices of litigation audit firms decrease their fees following the filing of a lawsuit. However, audit offices involved in litigation increase their audi...

plaintiff in civil litigation from the beginning which deals with petition to theend of litigation which the judge sets out a verdict, to reach his wasted or deniedright and to stabilize it, should comply with rules of proceeding and state matter offact and matters of law and prove the claim. therefor he must propose four issuesand prove them to reach the relief sought: 1.formal rules of proced...

In 1990, J. Robert Prichard released his report (1) to the Conference of Deputy Ministers on “Liability and Compensation in Health Care.” He concluded that from 1975 to 1990 there had been significant growth in the frequency and severity of malpractice claims, insurance premiums and the cost of malpractice litigation. Despite this growth, only about ten percent of persons suffering avoidable he...

according to article 158 of civil procedure act, forcible occupy litigation consists of the claim of previous possessor on the base of another person has occupied the immovable property that has been in his possession without his consent and he ask recover of his possession on that property. forcible occupy litigation has been foreseen for supporting of possessions of human for holding social s...

Litigation seems to be a Pareto-inefficient outcome of pretrial bargaining; however, this paper shows that litigation can be the outcome of rational behavior by a litigant and her attorney. If the attorney has more information than his client concerning the characteristics of the lawsuit, the client can use litigation as a way of extracting information. I show that, counterintuitively, litigati...

Recent examples of patent litigation show the evidence of firms strategic patent use. Thus forecasting patent litigation becomes a greater priority. Patent citations have been prevalent in its usage in analyzing business environment as diverse patent indicators or a tool to predict patent litigation. However, most previous research has considered only direct patent citations. In order to overco...

Private enforcement, or litigation, has played a historic role in protecting public health in the United States. Litigation is often employed as a means to protect public health when government regulation is absent or ineffectual. Litigation has been successfully employed to control both asbestos and tobacco and is poised for success in combating the obesity epidemic. Litigation is effective be...

Litigation seems to be a Pareto-inefficient outcome of pretrial bargaining; however, this paper shows that litigation can be the outcome of rational behavior by a litigant and her attorney. If the attorney has more information than his client concerning the characteristics of the lawsuit, the client can use litigation as a way of extracting information. I show that, counterintuitively, litigati...

It is well known that plaintiff-side contingent representation is on the rise in patent litigation. But why? And what are the lawyers in the field like? Although scholars have studied contingent litigation in other contexts — such as medical malpractice, personal injury, and products liability litigation — patent litigation has received almost no attention. This gap in the literature is unsettl...