Use of Lawyers
» Use of Lawyers, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2005
If respondent consulted lawyer in the last year AND has on-going relationship with law firm or individual lawyer AND 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.
8f. Aside from legal expenses, did money or something else of monetary value exchange hands between participants as a result of the dispute?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | 31 | ||
| 2 | No | 67 | ||
| 3 | DK/Refuse | 3 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 243 | |||
Notes: Thirty-one (31) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) who consulted a lawyer in the last year, have an on-going relationship with a lawyer, and used a lawyer in the last three years to help settle a legal dispute, report that something of value changed hands between the disputing parties (Q#8f).
