Nevertheless, he went to the law library every day, and in his cell he kept a copy of the thousand-page "Prisoners' Self-Help Litigation Manual".
The firm doesn't lobby or help in litigation.
That, Mr. Vilsack argued, would help prevent litigation, like the lawsuits that have already delayed the approval of genetically altered alfalfa and sugar beets.
STRICTLY speaking, forensic accounting is audit work performed to help in litigation, but it usually refers to the investigation of an individual's or a corporation's finances to find missing money.
A cellphone company, NextWave Telecom Inc., is urging Congress to authorize a cash payment of $5.8 billion to the company to help settle litigation over cellular licenses that it obtained in 1996 and 1997.
The company, based in Madison, N.J., will have paid a total of $11.2 billion by the end of this year to help resolve litigation over the fen-phen diet combination, Mr. Martin said at the company's annual meeting with analysts in New York.
Since McCrory won't help, pending litigation seems the only hope at this point.
Or, to help avoid litigation, many reputable companies offer knock-offs of celebrity Oscar gowns and what-not.
Being open after errors may also help avoid litigation, noted Dr. Gary Noskin, senior vice president and chief medical officer of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and a researcher at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
He went on to create BlackRobe Capital Partners, which helped finance litigation against big corporations, but he closed the company recently before joining Mr. Tourre's legal team.
During the Clinton administration, the E.P.A. carried out an aggressive set of reforms that helped reduce litigation delays over how cleanups would be conducted.
