Not exact matches
However, with the rise of
litigation funders, who necessarily approach
litigation with more of a «
business eye»,
businesses are becoming increasingly alive to the possibility that
litigation can be used
as an unexpected source of revenue rather than merely a
tool to use when something has gone wrong.
Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a
litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide
tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small
business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.
In this video,
litigation partner Steve Baughman discusses Covered
Business Method challenges, highlighting the importance of this powerful
tool in framing a strategy on either side of a patent dispute, whether
as a patent owner or a patent challenger.
She uses
litigation as a
tool to achieve her clients»
business objectives in the most efficient manner, and is especially skilled at driving settlements and getting cases dismissed at their onset.