Schiro called Kenneth Feinberg, who had overseen the resolution of 5,300 claims for the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, with only 94 going to litigation.
He said before his case got to the litigation stage, he had been told by a member of the tax counsel network – the ATO's legal advice area – that "this is not going to litigation, we'll end up settling it".
"For elected officials in a collaborative process running a city, the goal is to achieve objectives without having to go to litigation," said Randy M. Mastro, a former deputy mayor who has been involved in numerous lawsuits involving, and usually against, the city.
But in a statement issued Tuesday, Mr. Paterson said, "While it is unfortunate that state and city funds have to be repaid to the federal government, we believe that this settlement requires payment of approximately $1 billion less than we could potentially have had to pay if the matter had gone to litigation".
That dispute recently went to litigation.
One-tenth of all insurance cases go to litigation, which cost the insurance industry $15.6 billion in 1995, more than half of which was in legal and administrative expenses.
Verizon Wireless doesn't like it either and says it's prepared to go to litigation to prevent its customers' numbers from getting out.
Moving on to that "evidence of bad faith": Allen pointed to a leaked recording of a company meeting where Smith discussed an unidentified legal case and said, "If it goes to litigation, if we're wrong, we'll win".
Most divorces are settled with minimal intervention from the court system, but for the minority that do go to litigation, abuse allegations are commonly part of the case, raising the stakes when parental alienation is asserted.
"Part of it came because of the discussions we were having, and part of it because they knew there was going to be litigation".
"When we first embarked on this program," he said, "the question was not if there was going to be litigation but when.
