Litigation and Negotiation Strategy

How top lawyers find the decisive issue, negotiate within ethical limits, and manage a crisis.

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Litigation Strategy: A Key to Winning

John Quinn on why the side that figures out first what will matter in a lawsuit usually wins

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Litigation Strategy: Identifying the Decisive Issues

John Quinn on finding what a jury will believe early, and why early spending is a client's best investment

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Can lawyers lie in negotiations?

Model Rule 4.1, puffing and bluffing, and the point where negotiation talk becomes fraud

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Can lawyers use threats in a negotiation?

When threats of criminal charges, bar complaints, or immigration reports cross ethical lines in civil disputes

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Crisis Management — the First 48hrs

Do's and don'ts for a company's first two days of a crisis, from stakeholders to statements