Use of Lawyers
» Use of Lawyers, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2005
If respondent consulted lawyer in the last year AND has ongoing relationship with law firm or individual lawyer AND has used lawyer in the last three years to help settle a legal dispute.
7a. About how many different business disputes occurred over the last three years for which you used a lawyer?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | 45 | ||
| 2 | Two | 23 | ||
| 3 | Three | 12 | ||
| 4 | 4 - 5 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 6 or more | 10 | ||
| 6 | DK/Refuse | 2 | ||
| Total (%) | 99 | |||
| N | 243 | |||
Notes: Forty-five (45) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) who consulted a lawyer in the last year and have an on-going relationship with a lawyer and used a lawyer in the last three years in a legal dispute, needed a lawyer for only one legal dispute during that time (Q#7a).
