Abstract
Cause lawyering is often criticized for creating an untenable tension between the professional obligations of the lawyer to the individual client and the lawyer’s ideological commitment to public causes. I sought to test empirically the validity of this argument by comparing the relative success rates of political lawyers and non-political lawyers in defending their clients’ interests in litigation concerning house-demolition orders before the Israeli High Court of Justice. I found that the general success rates of political lawyers in the research population were significantly higher than those of non-political lawyers. These findings can serve as an additional support for the various arguments in favor of cause lawyering.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 401-425 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Law and Policy |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Oct 1999 |