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Luigi Tonino Marsella - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Professional Liability in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Italy
    Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®, 2013
    Co-Authors: Umberto Tarantino, Ernesto Macrì, Alessandro Eramo, Valeria Marino, Alessio Giai Via, Luigi Tonino Marsella
    Abstract:

    Background Interest in medical errors has increased during the last few years owing to the number of medical malpractice claims. Reasons for the increasing number of claims may be related to patients’ higher expectations, iatrogenic injury, and the growth of the Legal Services Industry. Claims analysis provides helpful information in specialties in which a higher number of errors occur, highlighting areas where orthopaedic care might be improved. Questions/purposes We determined: (1) the number of claims involving orthopaedics and traumatology in Rome; (2) the risk of litigation in elective and trauma surgery; (3) the most common surgical procedures involved in claims and indemnity payments; (4) the time between the adverse medical event and the judgment date; and (5) issues related to informed consent. Methods We analyzed 1925 malpractice judgments decided in the Civil Court of Rome between 2004 and 2010. Results In total, 243 orthopaedics claims were filed, and in 75% of these cases surgeons were found liable; 149 (61%) of these resulted from elective surgery. Surgical teams were sued in 30 claims and found liable in 22. The total indemnity payment ordered was more than €12,350,000 (USD 16,190,000). THA and spinal surgery were the most common surgical procedures involved. Inadequate informed consent was reported in 5.3% of cases. Conclusions Our study shows that careful medical examination, accurate documentation in medical records, and adequate informed consent might reduce the number of claims. We suggest monitoring of court judgments would be useful to develop prevention strategies to reduce claims.

  • Professional Liability in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Italy
    Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 2013
    Co-Authors: Umberto Tarantino, Alessio Giai Via, Ernesto Macrì, Alessandro Eramo, Valeria Marino, Luigi Tonino Marsella
    Abstract:

    Background Interest in medical errors has increased during the last few years owing to the number of medical malpractice claims. Reasons for the increasing number of claims may be related to patients’ higher expectations, iatrogenic injury, and the growth of the Legal Services Industry. Claims analysis provides helpful information in specialties in which a higher number of errors occur, highlighting areas where orthopaedic care might be improved.

Benjamin A. Campbell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Better the Devil You Know? Examining the Relationship between Spinout Team Assembly and Spinout Survival
    Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility, 2020
    Co-Authors: Joseph Raffiee, Martin Ganco, Benjamin A. Campbell
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    This chapter investigates the relationship between the composition of initial spinout teams and spinout survival. We develop a theory suggesting that spinout founders hiring from their prior firm versus hiring from the external labor market to assemble spinout teams will have differential effects on spinout survival. Using confidential employee–employer linked data in the Legal Services Industry provided by the United States Census Bureau, we find evidence that inclusion of spinout team members from the founder's prior firm is positively related to spinout survival, a relationship which increases with included members' prior earnings. In contrast, we find that inclusion of spinout team members from firms outside the founder's prior firm is positively associated with spinout failure, a relationship which becomes statistically insignificant when included team members' prior earnings are high. Taken together, our results point to the potential hazards associated with using external markets to assemble spinout teams, thereby establishing an important boundary condition for extant theory which has focused on the benefits associated with spinout team size, but has often neglected the labor market strategy through which such teams are assembled.

  • what do i take with me the mediating effect of spin out team size and tenure on the founder firm performance relationship
    Academy of Management Journal, 2016
    Co-Authors: Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin A. Campbell, April Franco, Martin Ganco
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    Our study examines the mediating effect of spin-out team characteristics on the relationship between founder quality and parent and spin-out performance. Since the ability to transfer or recreate complementary assets is a critical determinant of performance, we theorize and show that founders with greater ability impact both parent firm and spin-out performance by assembling teams that represent strong complementary human capital. Using linked employee-employer US Census data from the Legal Services Industry, we find founding team size and tenure mediate the founder quality effect. Our findings have practical implications for both managers of existing firms and aspiring founders as it relates to their human resource strategies: the factor most salient to performance is not the individual quality per se, but the manner in which it impacts the transfer and spillover of complementary human capital.

  • What Do I Take with Me?: The Mediating Effect of Spin-Out Team Size and Tenure on the Founder-Firm Performance Relationship
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
    Co-Authors: Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin A. Campbell, April Franco, Martin Ganco
    Abstract:

    Our study examines the mediating effect of spin-out team characteristics on the relationship between founder quality and parent and spin-out performance. Since the ability to transfer or recreate complementary assets is a critical determinant of performance, we theorize and show that founders with greater ability impact both parent firm and spin-out performance by assembling teams that represent strong complementary human capital. Using linked employee-employer US Census data from the Legal Services Industry, we find founding team size and tenure mediate the founder quality effect. Our findings have practical implications for both managers of existing firms and aspiring founders as it relates to their human resource strategies: the factor most salient to performance is not the individual quality per se, but the manner inwhich it impacts the transfer and spillover of complementary human capital.

  • Heterogeneity in turnover: The effect of relative compensation dispersion of firms on the mobility and entrepreneurship of extreme performers
    Strategic Management Journal, 2012
    Co-Authors: Seth Carnahan, Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin A. Campbell
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    We explore the strategic implications of firm compensation dispersion on the heterogeneous turnover outcomes of employee mobility and entrepreneurship. We theorize that individuals' turnover decisions are affected by the interaction of individual performance with the firm's compensation dispersion relative to its competitors. We test our theory using linked employer-employee data from the Legal Services Industry. We find that individuals with extreme high performance are less likely to leave firms that offer higher compensation dispersion than competitors, however, if they do leave these employers, they are more likely to create new ventures. In contrast, employees with extreme low performance are more likely to leave firms with more compensation dispersion than competitors, and these individuals are less likely to engage in new venture creation. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

  • EFFECT OF RELATIVE COMPENSATION DISPERSION ON MOBILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF EXTREME PERFORMERS
    Academy of Management Proceedings, 2011
    Co-Authors: Seth Carnahan, Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin A. Campbell
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    We examine the strategic implications of firm compensation structures on employee mobility and entrepreneurship. We theorize that employees seek compensation systems that provide the greatest rewards for their level of performance, and thus individuals’ mobility and entrepreneurship decisions are affected by the interaction of individual performance with the firm’s compensation structure relative to its competitors. We test our theory using linked employer-employee data from the Legal Services Industry. We find that individuals with extreme high performance are less likely to leave firms that offer higher pay dispersion than competitors, however, if they do leave these employers, they are more likely to create new ventures. In contrast, employees with extreme low performance are more likely to leave firms with more compensation dispersion than competitors, but these individuals are less likely to engage in entrepreneurial new venture creation.

Daniel Martin Katz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • quantitative Legal prediction or how i learned to stop worrying and start preparing for the data driven future of the Legal Services Industry
    Emory law journal, 2013
    Co-Authors: Daniel Martin Katz
    Abstract:

    INTRODUCTIONThis Essay is about solutions-real solutions that law schools can deploy right now to improve the education we provide. And it is about how to overcome obstacles to implementing those solutions right now. This is how change happens.We have all heard a great deal about the problems facing Legal education (and the Legal profession more generally). Pundits have gone on for years about how law graduates are ill prepared for practice.1 More recently, there has been a seemingly endless barrage of commentary about the difficulty recent law graduates face in finding jobs.2Often these commentators suggest extreme remedies (such as closing down all United States law schools or completely deregulating law practice so that anyone can offer Legal Services).3 Others suggest less extreme, but unrealistic remedies (such as forcing law faculties to change how they teach, stopping them from writing so that they can teach more, or doing away with faculty governance so that they have no say over these matters).4My goal here is not to debate the many criticisms that have been leveled at Legal education. While these criticisms may be overstated at times,5 I will start from the premise-which I believe is hard to debate-that most law schools could do a better job than they currently do to prepare their graduates to practice law and to get jobs.I will start by discussing a potential solution to these problems that is nonextreme, well researched, and relatively well accepted within the Legal academy: the recommendations contained in the 2007 Carnegie Foundation report on Legal education, titled Educating Lawyers (Carnegie Report).6 I will then explore why the Carnegie Report recommendations are still far from fully implemented in most U.S. law schools. Finally, I will recommend a set of realistic strategies for law schools to more fully implement the Carnegie Report's recommendations, and introduce a nationwide initiative called Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers that is designed to facilitate this process.I. THE CARNEGIE SOLUTIONMost critics of Legal education focus on two basic problems in American law schools. First, they charge, law schools do not adequately prepare graduates for Legal practice.7 Law schools might do a decent job of teaching their students how to read and analyze appellate cases, most critics concede.8 But this is only a small part of the skill set required to be a lawyer, and the critics claim that law schools do not do a very good job of teaching the remainder of that skill set.9 That is, law schools do not prepare practice-ready lawyers.A second, and related, criticism is that law graduates have had an increasingly hard time finding good jobs.10 Some of this may be related to the recent recession and may ease as the economy recovers. Other parts of this problem may be the result of a "new normal," in which there are competitive forces impacting law practice that will not change even after the economy recovers.11 However, for purposes of this Essay, I will assume that at least part of the problem lies in the realm of Legal education. Specifically, law schools could do a better job of preparing their graduates to compete for high-quality Legal jobs if we did a better job of preparing practice-ready lawyers.12What might surprise many outside of the Legal academy is that there is a potential set of solutions to these problems that is close-at-hand: the recommendations of the Carnegie Report.13 The authors of that report compared Legal education to other forms of professional education, to the elements of the practice of law, and to adult learning theory, and reached two basic conclusions.14 First, the report concluded that American law schools do a relatively good job of teaching students about Legal doctrine and how to determine that doctrine and its limits.15 But, the Carnegie Report concluded, law schools have traditionally not done a very good job of teaching the skills for deploying that doctrine in the service of real clients or the professional identity required to understand the role of a lawyer. …

  • quantitative Legal prediction or how i learned to stop worrying and start preparing for the data driven future of the Legal Services Industry
    2012
    Co-Authors: Daniel Martin Katz
    Abstract:

    Do I have a case? What is our likely exposure? How much is this going to cost? What will happen if we leave this particular provision out of this contract? How can we best staff this particular Legal matter? These are core questions asked by sophisticated clients such as general counsels as well as consumers at the retail level. Whether generated by a mental model or a sophisticated algorithm, prediction is a core component of the guidance that lawyers offer. Indeed, it is by generating informed answers to these types of questions that many lawyers earn their respective wage. Every single day lawyers and law firms are providing predictions to their clients regarding their prospects in litigation and the cost associated with its pursuit (defense). How are these predictions being generated? Precisely what data or model is being leveraged? Could a subset of these predictions be improved by access to outcome data in a large number of 'similar' cases. Simply put, the answer is yes. Quantitative Legal prediction already plays a significant role in certain practice areas and this role is likely increase as greater access to appropriate Legal data becomes available. This article is dedicated to highlighting the coming age of Quantitative Legal Prediction with hopes that practicing lawyers, law students and law schools will take heed and prepare to survive (thrive) in this new ordering. Simply put, most lawyers, law schools and law students are going to have to do more to prepare for the data driven future of this Industry. In other words, welcome to Law's Information Revolution and yeah - there is going to be math on the exam.

  • Quantitative Legal Prediction – or – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Preparing for the Data Driven Future of the Legal Services Industry
    2012
    Co-Authors: Daniel Martin Katz
    Abstract:

    Do I have a case? What is our likely exposure? How much is this going to cost? What will happen if we leave this particular provision out of this contract? How can we best staff this particular Legal matter? These are core questions asked by sophisticated clients such as general counsels as well as consumers at the retail level. Whether generated by a mental model or a sophisticated algorithm, prediction is a core component of the guidance that lawyers offer. Indeed, it is by generating informed answers to these types of questions that many lawyers earn their respective wage. Every single day lawyers and law firms are providing predictions to their clients regarding their prospects in litigation and the cost associated with its pursuit (defense). How are these predictions being generated? Precisely what data or model is being leveraged? Could a subset of these predictions be improved by access to outcome data in a large number of 'similar' cases. Simply put, the answer is yes. Quantitative Legal prediction already plays a significant role in certain practice areas and this role is likely increase as greater access to appropriate Legal data becomes available. This article is dedicated to highlighting the coming age of Quantitative Legal Prediction with hopes that practicing lawyers, law students and law schools will take heed and prepare to survive (thrive) in this new ordering. Simply put, most lawyers, law schools and law students are going to have to do more to prepare for the data driven future of this Industry. In other words, welcome to Law's Information Revolution and yeah - there is going to be math on the exam.

Noel Semple - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Mystery shopping: demand-side phenomena in markets for personal plight Legal Services
    International Journal of the Legal Profession, 2018
    Co-Authors: Noel Semple
    Abstract:

    ABSTRACT“Personal plight” is the sector of the Legal Services Industry in which the clients are individuals, and the Legal needs arise from disputes. This article proposes that competition among personal plight law firms is suppressed by three demand-side phenomena. First, consumers confront high search costs. Identifying competing law firms willing and able to provide the needed Services often requires significant expenditure of temporal and psychological resources. Second, comparable price and quality information about firms is scarce for consumers. Both of these factors impede comparison shopping and reduce competitive pressure on firms. A third competition-suppressing factor is observed in tort Legal service markets, where offerings are typically priced on a contingency basis. Contingency fees have relatively low salience to consumers, and this reduces consumers’ willingness to negotiate and comparison-shop on the basis of price. This analysis is supported by the author’s empirical research with Ontar...

  • Mystery Shopping: Demand-Side Phenomena in Markets for Personal Plight Legal Services
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
    Co-Authors: Noel Semple
    Abstract:

    "Personal plight" is the sector of the Legal Services Industry in which the clients are individuals, and the Legal needs arise from disputes. This article proposes that competition among personal plight law firms is suppressed by three demand-side phenomena. First, consumers confront high search costs. Identifying competing law firms willing and able to provide the needed Services often requires significant expenditure of temporal and psychological resources. Second, comparable price and quality information about firms is scarce for consumers. Both of these factors impede comparison shopping and reduce competitive pressure on firms. A third competition-suppressing factor is observed in tort Legal service markets, where offerings are typically priced on a contingency basis. Contingency fees have relatively low salience to consumers, and this reduces consumers' willingness to negotiate and comparison-shop on the basis of price. This analysis is supported by the author's empirical research with Ontario personal plight lawyers as well as the existing literature. The article concludes by suggesting possible consequences of this analysis for regulatory policy.

Umberto Tarantino - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Professional Liability in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Italy
    Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®, 2013
    Co-Authors: Umberto Tarantino, Ernesto Macrì, Alessandro Eramo, Valeria Marino, Alessio Giai Via, Luigi Tonino Marsella
    Abstract:

    Background Interest in medical errors has increased during the last few years owing to the number of medical malpractice claims. Reasons for the increasing number of claims may be related to patients’ higher expectations, iatrogenic injury, and the growth of the Legal Services Industry. Claims analysis provides helpful information in specialties in which a higher number of errors occur, highlighting areas where orthopaedic care might be improved. Questions/purposes We determined: (1) the number of claims involving orthopaedics and traumatology in Rome; (2) the risk of litigation in elective and trauma surgery; (3) the most common surgical procedures involved in claims and indemnity payments; (4) the time between the adverse medical event and the judgment date; and (5) issues related to informed consent. Methods We analyzed 1925 malpractice judgments decided in the Civil Court of Rome between 2004 and 2010. Results In total, 243 orthopaedics claims were filed, and in 75% of these cases surgeons were found liable; 149 (61%) of these resulted from elective surgery. Surgical teams were sued in 30 claims and found liable in 22. The total indemnity payment ordered was more than €12,350,000 (USD 16,190,000). THA and spinal surgery were the most common surgical procedures involved. Inadequate informed consent was reported in 5.3% of cases. Conclusions Our study shows that careful medical examination, accurate documentation in medical records, and adequate informed consent might reduce the number of claims. We suggest monitoring of court judgments would be useful to develop prevention strategies to reduce claims.

  • Professional Liability in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Italy
    Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 2013
    Co-Authors: Umberto Tarantino, Alessio Giai Via, Ernesto Macrì, Alessandro Eramo, Valeria Marino, Luigi Tonino Marsella
    Abstract:

    Background Interest in medical errors has increased during the last few years owing to the number of medical malpractice claims. Reasons for the increasing number of claims may be related to patients’ higher expectations, iatrogenic injury, and the growth of the Legal Services Industry. Claims analysis provides helpful information in specialties in which a higher number of errors occur, highlighting areas where orthopaedic care might be improved.