Abstract
Jurisdictions across the United States are facing the issue of whether or not lawyers should be permitted to represent plaintiffs in small claims court. In this paper, we make use of an expected utility model to analyze how the number of claims filed by attorneys on behalf of plaintiffs has varied over almost four decades in the New York City Small Claims Court. The paper concludes that as the size of legally allowable claims has increased, the percentage of claims in which a plaintiff is represented by a lawyer has also increased.
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