Legal Fees

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

REPRESENTATION OF CITIZEN INTERESTS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

THE EFFECT OF LEGAL FEES ON THE ADEQUACY
OF REPRESENTATION

PARTS I AND II

SEPTEMBER 19 AND 20; OCTOBER 1, 2, 4, AND 5, 1973

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas
SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina
PHILIP A. HART, Michigan

EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts

BIRCH BAYH, Indiana

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia

JOHN V. TUNNEY, California

ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska
HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii

HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania

STROM THURMOND, South Carolina
MARLOW W. COOK, Kentucky

CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland
EDWARD J. GURNEY, Florida

SUBCOMMITTEE ON REPRESENTATION OF CITIZEN INTERESTS
JOHN V. TUNNEY, California, Chairman

SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina
BIRCH BAYH, Indiana

MARLOW W. COOK, Kentucky

CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland

JANE FRANK, Chief Counsel and Staff Director
NEIL LEVY, Assistant Counsel

JOSEPH DAWAHARE, Minority Counsel
MATTHEW SCHNEIDER, Staff Assistant

(II)

Tunney, Hon. John V., U.S. Senator from California, chairman, Subcom-

mittee on Representation of Citizen Interests.

Cook, Hon. Marlow W., U.S. Senator from Kentucky.

Thursday, September 20, 1973

Tunney, Hon. John V., U.S. Senator from California, chairman, Subcom-

mittee on Representation of Citizen Interests

WITNESSES

Armstrong, Walter P., attorney at law, on behalf of the American Bar

Association.

Durham, Delores, car buyer, Washington, D.C.

Ferren, John M., attorney at law, author of "Antitrust and Ethical Aspects

of Lawyers' Minimum Fee Schedules".

Goldfarb, Lewis H., homebuyer and plaintiff in Goldfarb v. Virginia State
Bar; accompanied by: Alan Morrison, attorney at law..
Kornher, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L., homebuyers, Fairfax County, Va....
Ring, Leonard M., president, Association of Trial Lawyers of America;
accompanied by: Jack Travis, treasurer, Association of Trial Lawyers
of America..

Rothschild, Professor Donald, George Washington University Law School;
accompanied by: Ricardo D. Moreno, president, Ayuda, law student;
and Winthrop N. Brown, student director of Consumer Protection
Center, George Washington University Law School--

Weaver, Peter, nationally syndicated consumer columnist

Woodson, James, on behalf of Virginia State Bar..

Wilson, Bruce, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division,

U.S. Department of Justice; accompanied by: Lewis Bernstein, Chief

of Litigation Section; Keith I. Clearwaters, special assistant to the

Assistant Attorney General....

EXHIBITS AND APPENDIX DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE

Bernstein, Lewis, chief, Special Litigation Section, Antitrust Division,

U.S. Department of Justice, remarks prepared for the National Con-

ference of Bar Presidents, August 4, 1973..

Burns, Kenneth J., Jr., secretary, American Bar Association, letter to

Presidents of State and local Bar Associations dated November 14, 1973,