For the past 18 months, McKenna Long & Aldridge has been developing an internal software program called MLA Value Track that will predict how much a litigation matter will cost based on how much similar litigation has cost in the past.
Groth told The Post that he was concerned about taxpayer dollars being spent on the litigation, so he submitted a public records request in December 2014, asking for all communications between Pence and the state attorney general's office about his decision to join the lawsuit, the contract between Pence's office and the private law firm, and invoices that show how much the litigation costs.
Since there are no national statistics tracking civil verdicts and settlements, it is difficult to say just how much of an effect the "litigation explosion" has had on the private sector.
Companies typically calculate how much they will spend in litigation costs if they deny a departing executive their severance package, said Charles Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.
He also declined to respond to our questions — citing ongoing litigation — about how much money the US has seized from Guantanamo detainees over the past 12 years, what the US has done with the funds, and when the policy was enacted.
He summed up his feelings by asking: "When you tear the Constitution apart, bit by bit, and give it a death by a thousand cuts, what else will we sacrifice the Constitution for?" This is the question the D.C. court must ultimately answer as it considers the Clean Power Plan litigation: Just how much power does a president have?
The behavior of physicians in response to the risk of malpractice litigation may differ depending on how much physicians are exposed to the risk of litigation, and how they perceive this risk.
Litigation remains pending over how much compensation the government owes for that eminent-domain action.
It is not clear where the cash taken out of the Madoff accounts is located, or how much of it can be recovered through litigation.
