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 respondent has used lawyer in the last three years to help settle a legal dispute.
Think of the dispute that was most recently RESOLVED one way or another.
8a. Was the matter settled in-court, informally out-of-court, or through formal arbitration or mediation of some type?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In-court | 12 | ||
| 2 | Out-of-court | 53 | ||
| 3 | Arbitration/Mediation | 22 | ||
| 4 | DK/Refuse | 14 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 243 | |||
Notes: Fifty-three (53) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) who consulted a lawyer in the last year, have on-going relationship with a lawyer, and used a lawyer in the last three years to help settle a legal dispute, had their most recently resolved dispute settled out-of-court (Q#8a).
