Conflit d'intérêt économique entre avocats et clients: la questions des honoraires

Alain Lempereur () and Mathieu Scodellaro
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Mathieu Scodellaro: ESSEC Business School, Postal: Avenue Bernard Hirsch - B.P. 105, 95021 CERGY-PONTOISE CEDEX , FRANCE

No DR 03006, ESSEC Working Papers from ESSEC Research Center, ESSEC Business School

Abstract: In the line of the agency question, the lawyer/client relationship cannot escape the risk of conflict of interests. This text broadly redefines the nature of this conflict, and links it to an important source of tension, i.e. fees. We study three types of billing : contingency fees, hourly, and alternative billing. Besides billing structures, we examine their influence on this latent conflict, and propose a few ways of managing and preventing tensions.

Keywords: Agency question; Principal/agent tension; Lawyer; Conflict of interests; Tension management; Billing structure; Contingency fees; Hourly billing; Alternative billing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 E24 K41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2003-03
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