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  Law & Society ReviewVolume 41 Issue 2, Pages 279 - 304 Published Online: 18 May 2007 © 2009 Law and Society Association
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 150K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Does the Lawyer Matter? Influencing Outcomes on the Supreme Court of Canada The authors wish to thank Donald Songer, Susan Haire, Cynthia Combs, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. In particular, the suggestions by the editor, Herbert Kritzer, were invaluable, and led to significant improvements in the quality of the article. As always, any errors herein are solely the work product of the authors. Copyright © 2007 by The Law and Society Association. All rights reserved. ABSTRACTThis article examines the impact of lawyer capability on the decisionmaking of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC). Extending prior attorney capability studies of U.S. judicial decisionmaking, we test three lawyer variables: prior litigation experience, litigation team size, and Queen's Counsel designation. We find that the first two variables have a statistically significant and positive relationship with the SCC's decisions in non-reference-question cases from 1988 to 2000. Moreover, this relationship persists even after controlling for party capability, issue area, and judicial policy preferences. | 
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