A "good fit": Client sorting among nonprofit, private, and pro bono immigration attorneys.
Existing scholarship finds that having an attorney in immigration legal proceedings increases the chances of a favorable outcome. This work, however, often acknowledges that the representation effect is underexplained: selection may explain outcomes, and variation among attorneys is difficult to ass...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 141 - 162 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jun2023
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