Using this technology, litigants can visually describe the economic shape and character of the potential economic outcomes of litigation, examine the wealth risk associated with alternative
settlement bargaining strategies and «bench - test» the
process of making a particular
settlement offer or demand before going into a live - fire
bargaining situation.
David, I wasn't sure which you meant was increasing the cost of the
process to clients — holding
settlement discussions at any stage, or not entering into pre-mediation
bargaining?