What is the impact of a contract where a lawyer is required to produce a defense in a personal injury case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Maxwell v. Superior Court, 180 Cal.Rptr. 177, 30 Cal.3d 606, 639 P.2d 248 (Cal. 1982):
Contracts of this kind are widely criticized. It is said they tempt lawyers, consciously or subconsciously and adversely to the client's interests, to tilt the defense for commercial reasons. (See, e.g., Wojtowicz v. United States (2d Cir. 1977) 550 F.2d 786, 793, cert. den. 431 U.S. 972, 97 S.Ct. 2938, 53 L.Ed.2d 1071; Ray v. Rose (6th Cir. 1976) 535 F.2d 966, 974, cert. den., 429 U.S. 1026,
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