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Complex Litigation How we manage complex litigation Litigation expenses can have a major impact on the bottom line of any business. The high cost of litigation is often driven by inefficient tasking, including the use of high-priced lawyers for tasks that could just as easily be completed by lower-priced lawyers or non-lawyers. At Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC, we believe that our lawyers are best utilized in the service of a case’s strategic and tactical needs, rather than on the rudimentary processing of documents and other evidence. Therefore, Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC typically staffs its cases with two of its own lawyers and ensures that, if others can perform certain tasks more efficiently, those tasks are appropriately allocated and supervised. Some particularly complex cases—such as those involving a large number of documents, parties, or witnesses—are incredibly labor-intensive. Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC has aided its clients in developing innovative and cost-effective solutions to such cases. Two of those solutions are described below. Insourcing: The FedEx Model In the early 1990s, FedEx predicted that it would face significant increases in legal expenses in the coming years. FedEx concluded that the most cost-effective way to deal with this threat was to employ a large in-house staff of experienced litigators, devoted full-time to FedEx cases, at half the cost of outside counsel. This model has enabled FedEx to keep its litigation expenses among the lowest of companies in the Fortune 500. While in-sourcing can be a cost-effective way to deal with cases that are both foreseeable to a company and familiar to its lawyers, a need for outside support can occasionally arise. Since April of 2001, when Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC was founded, FedEx has turned to Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC to provide this additional support. Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC works with FedEx to ensure that responsibilities for the litigation are allocated efficiently between in-house and outside counsel. Often, extensive preliminary discussions about this allocation can save enormous costs over the course of the litigation. For a more extensive discussion of the FedEx Model, please see this Corporate Counsel profile of Spotswood LLC and this article in the Corporate Legal Times. Outsourcing Though in-sourcing is a cost-effective solution for large companies that face a significant amount of litigation, it is not the most cost-effective solution for every company. But even companies that rely heavily on outside counsel can make cost-effective use of Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC’s services. In labor-intensive cases, Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC is prepared to outsource those activities that do not require our expertise. Numerous companies, in the United States and beyond, a well-equipped to provide top-notch support in processing evidence and performing other rudimentary legal tasks. These tasks are, of course, performed under the careful supervision of Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC’s lawyers. There are, of course, numerous other
ways to reduce legal expenses, and Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury LLC seeks to tailor its
litigation services to the needs of its individual clients and their
individual cases. By creating these solutions, Spotswood Sansom &
Sansbury LLC ensures
that its clients use it for what it does best: Using its extensive
experience and legal skills to resolve complex cases as efficiently
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