You will learn the following from this presentation:
- What shortcuts are available to achieve early assessment and resolution of a case, including:
- How a preliminary factual investigation can provide most of what you need to assess and arrive at the right strategy
- How accelerating expert advice may clarify strategy and settlement value
- Managing the costs of complex litigation:
- How staffing and duration are the key drivers of project costs
- Why standard project budgeting is not predictive
- How to ask the right questions around predicting timeliness and influencing timing
- Review of shortcut litigation tools, including:
- Summary trials
- Trials of an issue
- Customized trial orders
- Review of mediation/arbitration shortcuts:
- Mediation/Arbitration agreements
- Baseball arbitrations as a means of achieving settlement
- New expedited rules: pros and cons
- Hardwiring timeliness
- Barriers to shortcuts and spoilers:
- Deal baggage
- Personal stakes
- Institutional rigidity
- False shortcuts
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Event contact
Justin Mui Marketing Events Specialist +1 604 631 3296jmui@fasken.com
