Settlement Perspectives

Recent Posts from Settlement Perspectives

• CPR Publishes Early Case Assessment Guidelines

  You can’t settle your case before you know what it’s worth — or at least you shouldn’t — so we discussed why it’s best to value your dispute before settlement discussions start a few months…

• The Partner Focus Group: An Easy Way to Get The Extra Perspective You Need

  There’s something exciting about a war room as the big case turns toward trial, and ours was no different — witness notebooks, research files, box after box of “hot” documents, and a whiteboard with the…

• Ambiguities in Rule 68: Why Are They Relevant to You?

  If you see an ambiguity in a rule, is it your job to fix it? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t, but one thing’s for sure: until the rule changes, you have to deal with…

• Advanced Decision Tree Analysis in Litigation: An Interview With Marc Victor, Part II

  For advanced decision analysis in litigation, where do we start?  Last week we began to take our series on decision trees to the next level with Part I of our interview with Marc Victor of…

• Advanced Decision Tree Analysis in Litigation: An Interview With Marc Victor, Part I

  A .pdf version of this advanced decision tree is available here. Decision Tree Analysis isn’t new to litigation, and it isn’t new to this site either — we discussed the basics and more a few…

• UDR: An Introduction to Unconventional Dispute Resolution

  As I have said before, if you really want to cut your litigation costs, step one is to have less litigation.  Step two, however, is just as important:  actively manage what’s left.  This post will…

• When Not To Negotiate: My Tree, My Neighbor’s House

  How do you negotiate with your neighbor as your tree sits on his roof? The subject line only read “Tree Down,” but I began to wonder. The irony wasn’t lost on me as I scanned…

• Settlement Perspectives to Return June 18th

  As you know from my most recent post, I haven’t exactly been on vacation.  That said, I finally made it to the beach this week — I’m at Pepperdine’s 22nd Annual Summer Professional Skills Program…

• Settlement Perspectives: The Newsletter, June 2009

  A Brief FYI for Readers Seeing This as a Post Online: This continues the series of Settlement Perspectives Newsletters I started in January, sent occasionally to those who have requested the email version. If you’d…

• Negotiating a Debt Restructuring: The Out of Office AutoReply

  As I write this I’m on yet another plane ride, but this one’s different. I’m flying home following some of the most intense, important negotiations I’ll ever be a part of. This isn’t a post…