Prominent legal scholars including University of California, Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Stanford Law School’s Nora Freeman Engstrom have come out against Uber’s initiative. Both have written op-eds for the Sacramento Bee agreeing with plaintiffs attorneys that the initiative would deeply harm accident victims’ ability to obtain counsel and essentially starve the plaintiffs bar.

Engstrom, in an article co-authored with Brianne Holland-Stergar of the University of Montana School of Law, wrote that the contingency fee system is “one of the engines of access to justice in the American legal system.”