Forum Shopping and Legal Labor Markets: Evidence from the Court Competition Era

C Brown, J Carballo, A Peri - The Journal of Law and …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Focusing on Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations of publicly listed firms during the court
competition era (1991–96), we document local legal employment effects of forum shopping …

Bankruptcy Shocks and Legal Labor Markets: Evidence from the Court Competition Era

C Brown, J Carballo, A Peri - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.00044, 2022 - arxiv.org
We study how Chapter 11 bankruptcies affect local legal labor markets. We document that
bankruptcy shocks increase county legal employment and corroborate this finding by …