1. For a discussion of structural and organizational differences in party capability, see Galanter (1974).

2. This research is summarized in Galanter (1975).

3. This estimate is based upon an expenditure level of 70 to 80 million dollars per year for the last five years reported in the Federal Budget for the years 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975.

4. On these experimental designs, see Glass et al. (1975); on their application to the study of legal change, see Campbell (1971) and Ross (1974).

5. For a report of an earlier project in this series, see Steele (1975), a study of the consumer fraud division of a state Attorney-General's office.

6. For helpful sociolegal introductions to various Western European approaches, see the essays (in German) by Knoppke-Wetzel et al. in the proceedings of a conference on “Compensatory Models of Legal Advice and Representation,” organized by the Sociology of Law Section of the German Sociological Association, Oct. 9—11,1975. The proceedings were published in the fall of 1976 by the Bertelsmann publishing house (Bertelsmann Universitätsverlag, Düsseldorf & Gütersloh, Germany) as part of its series entitled Jahrbuch für Rechtssoziologie und Rechtstheorie (Yearbook of Sociology of Law and Legal Theory).