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How to Manage Your Litigation Costs

BY Stewart M. Weltman
April 25, 2008

This is the first in a series of articles discussing how in-house counsel can better manage litigation matters.

If your corporation is like most, you have seen your legal costs and, in particular, your litigation costs soar over the last decade. For over 29 years I have practiced as a complex litigator, many times suing companies like yours. I have seen the bloat from the other side of the table. A party having multiple lawyers at a deposition that they are neither taking nor defending. Four or five lawyers appearing for one party at a hearing on a motion. Deposition programs that include meaningless witnesses numbingly questioned over irrelevancies.

It has never ceased to amaze me that when it comes to hiring and thereafter properly monitoring outside litigation counsel ' particularly in high-stakes matters ' corporations, who take great pride in thriving in a free market system where their customers are continually pounding them for lower prices, keep on overpaying for what they are getting.

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