Corporate COunsel Forum

Winning Litigation Strategies

Thursday 30 October 2008

Many disputes will settle short of court but your ability to force settlement on the best commercial terms or ultimately win at trial is all about getting your legal strategy right. What are the top tips for success in IP and technology disputes? Kemp Little partner and head of our litigation practice Paul Garland, together with Iona Berkeley, barrister from specialist Intellectual Property chambers, 8 New Square highlighted essential elements for success drawn from recent experience.

The session's focus was on key issues such as:

Top tips for success in IP and technology disputes
Key strategic points in the litigation context including: How are objectives, success, risk and reward assessed and measured?
How do you properly configure the team, use experts, manage costs and settlement offers and make sure the resource deployed is proportionate?
Issues such as disclosure and privilege, dealing with new methods of third party funding and trial preparation

Materials from the event are listed below:

Presentations
(Paul Garland, Head of Litigation at Kemp Little LLP and Iona Berkeley, Barrister from 8 New Square)
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FAQs (pdf)

Article:

A Note on the Anatomy of English Court Proceedings (pdf)