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: Point of Law"Insightful or Wishful: Lawyers' Ability to Predict Case Outcomes."
By Ted Frank
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Fascinating paper by Goodman-Delahunty et al. (via ABA Journal):Lawyers' litigation forecasts play an integral role in the justice system. In the course of litigation, lawyers constantly make strategic decisions and/or advise their clients on the basis of their perceptions and predictions of case outcomes. The study investigated the realism in predictions by a sample of attorneys (n = 481) across the United States who specified a minimum goal to achieve in a case set for trial. They estimated th read more
Full post as published by Point of Law on May 13, 2010 (boomark / email).
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