Litigation Documents and Work Product
Core Documents
A closing report documents the resolution, final indemnity and expense figures, the basis for the outcome, and any observations relevant to similar future matters. It typically accompanies the final invoice.
Most litigation guidelines require one within a defined period after closure.
Alternative Names:
Final Report, Case Closing Report
Why it Matters?
Closing reports feed the data clients use to evaluate firms and to identify patterns across a portfolio, which makes them more consequential than their perfunctory treatment suggests. A report identifying why a case resolved where it did, and what would have changed the outcome, contributes to the client's understanding in a way a bare outcome summary does not. Firms that write them well are visible in a way that generic reporting prevents.
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