Creating and Managing the Litigation Team
- The PSC and leadership appointment process
- Managing the litigation specific hybrid law firm
- Developing the PSC chemistry
- Funding Issues
- Dealing with Common Benefit Issues from the inception
- The chilling impact of intimidating the judiciary (blogs, mandamus, recusal)
- Litigation fatigue on litigants, jurors, and judges
Critical Tools for Navigating Mass Torts (Part 2)
- Multi-plaintiff trials
- Best practices for bellwether trials and the selection of same (mock trials/ focus groups)
- Videotaping trials for perpetuation
- Witnesses appearing via satellite transmission
- Global versus inventory settlements
- Aggregate settlements, ethical rules and fee disgorgement risk