From "loser pays" to modified offer of judgment rules: Reconciling incentives to settle with access to justice

Texas Law Review

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 1998, Pages

  Sherman, Edward F ^a  

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References (4)

1. See Arcambel v. Wiseman, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 306, 306 (1796) (insisting that attorneys' fees may not be recovered as a part of costs because "[t]he general practice of the United States is in opposition to it").
2. See James W. Hughes & Edward Snyder, Litigation and Settlement Under the English and American Rules: Theory and Evidence, 38 J.L. & ECON. 225, 225 (1995) ("Throughout most of the Western world the English rule applies, and the losing party in a dispute is liable for the winner's legal fees, up to a reasonable limit.").
3. See John P. Dawson, Lawyers and Involuntary Clients: Attorney Fees from Funds, 87 HARV. L. REV. 1597, 1598 (1974).
4. Id.