Litigation Strategy and Case Evaluation
Strategy and Planning
Containment measures include budgets, billing guidelines, alternative fee arrangements, staffing requirements, task-based billing, and technology adoption for document-intensive work.
It balances cost against outcome quality.
Alternative Names:
Cost Containment|Legal Cost Management
Why it Matters?
Containment measures that degrade outcomes cost more than they save, since underinvesting in a case that then produces an adverse verdict exceeds any fee savings by orders of magnitude. Distinguishing waste from necessary work requires substantive assessment rather than rate comparison alone. Technology-assisted review and offshore or contract staffing for document work produce genuine savings without affecting the substantive defense.
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Frequently asked questions
When does containment cost more than it saves?
Where are savings genuine?
