Conditional fees: Key to the courthouse or the casino?

Legal Ethics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 70-90

  Graffy, Colleen P ^a  

^a PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85037580257     PISSN: 1460728X     EISSN: 17578450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1460728X.1998.11424072     Document Type: Article

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