A good friend of mine (one of the finest complex litigators I know) and I sometimes joke that you could, if you wanted to, send a first year associate to take an expert deposition and get just about as good results as a senior partner - as long as the associate followed some key rules [several of which many attorneys constitutionally find hard to accept].
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- Rising Legal Costs Don’t Mean Rising Quality
I recently wrote this article for the American Bar Association's Litigation Update newsletter. - November 12, 2008, Chicago: Ark Group Conference -- Managing Litigation Costs and Risk
I will be a moderator and featured speaker at this conference, presenting on how in-house counsel can lower costs while maintaining quality by cultivating an effective relationship with outside counsel. - Link to my article in "The Corporate Counselor"
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Deposition
April 28, 2008
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