For example, poor decisions by plaintiffs to go to trial "are associated with cases in which contingency fee arrangements are common," according to the report.
Both exist solely to exploit patent lawsuits in the U.S. Sounds a lot like patent trolling, a much-vilified practice in which contingency lawyers or small companies with no operations sue businesses to extort money.
THE RECENT SETTLEMENTS in the tobacco cases in which contingency fee lawyers amassed billions at the expense of their state government clients have offended the sensibilities of most thinking people.
With the emergence of the first entities that could be termed living would come the emergence of biological selection or natural selection in which contingency plays a much greater part.
When the contingency rules have been sufficiently acquired (discrimination learning), there are 2 main ways in which reward contingencies can be altered.
We later translated this network into a qualitative bipartite Boolean model, in which all contingencies are absolute, and made minor adjustments because the bipartite Boolean modeling approach cannot deal with quantitative models [ 13].
No other great artist before modern times, in which shifting contingency affects every enterprise, seems less certain of whom he is addressing, and why.
For seven years, she followed both bands, interviewing their members and capturing their on- and off-stage triumphs and catastrophes, and a result is one of those heaven-sent narratives, like "Hoop Dreams" or "Startup.com," in which the contingency and chaos of events coalesce into a resonant and satisfying story.
The manner in which these contingency gene families have evolved has been difficult to assess and consequently there is no experimental data for or against diversifying selection or neutrality.
Others criticize the government of inaction: there were eight months in which to create contingency plans.
