Morris Ratner

UC Law, San Francisco

Professor of Law

200 McAllister Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

United States

  • UC Law, San Francisco

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Scholarly Papers (9)

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Determinants of Success on the Bar Exam: One Law School's Experience 2010-2023

AALS Journal of Legal Education (2025 Forthcoming), AccessLex Institute Research Paper Forthcoming, UC Law San Francisco Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2025
Morris Ratner, Stephen Goggin, Stefano Moscato, Margaret Greer and Elizabeth McGriff
UC Law, San Francisco, San Diego State University, UC Law, San Francisco, UC Law, San Francisco and UC Law, San Francisco
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Bar Exam, Legal Education, Academic Skills, Assessment, Education Policy, Academic Program Design

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A New Model of Plaintiffs' Class Action Attorneys

31 Review of Litigation 1 (2012), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 16
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 09 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2013
Morris Ratner
UC Law, San Francisco
Downloads 372 (163,839)

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class actions, class action attorneys, class action firms

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Restraining Lawyers: From 'Cases' to 'Tasks'

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 85, 2017, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 230
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2017
Morris Ratner
UC Law, San Francisco
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Professional Responsibility, Ethics, Law Practice Management, Civil Procedure

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Judicial Ethical Integrity: Challenges and Solutions

Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 Jan 2016
Morris Ratner
UC Law, San Francisco
Downloads 196 (313,996)

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Ethics, Rule of Law, Judges, Judicial Ethical Integrity

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Class Conflicts

Washington Law Review, Forthcoming, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 231
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 06 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2017
Morris Ratner
UC Law, San Francisco
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class actions, conflicts, ethics, multidistrict litigation, mass torts

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Class Counsel as Litigation Funders

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 28, p. 271, 2015, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 145
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2015
Morris Ratner
UC Law, San Francisco
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Ethics, Attorney's Fees, Class Actions, Civil Procedure

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Achieving Procedural Goals Through Indirection: The Use of Ethics Doctrine to Justify Contingency Fee Caps in MDL Aggregate Settlements

26 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 59 (2013), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 36
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013
Morris Ratner
UC Law, San Francisco
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Aggregate Settlements, Multidistrict Litigation, MDL, Contingency Fees, Ethics

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Profit for Costs

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 63, 2014, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 105
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 May 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2014
Morris Ratner and William B. Rubenstein
UC Law, San Francisco and Harvard Law School
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Foreward - 'MDL Problems' - A Brief Introduction and Summary

Review of Litigation, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2018, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 332
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2019
Morris Ratner
UC Law, San Francisco
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MDL, Civil Procedure