True, malpractice litigation data also have many flaws: too few malpractice claims are filed to reflect an accurate picture of a hospital's shortcomings, and the amount awarded in litigation may not reflect the merits of the claims.
The client will no longer be surprised by a whopper bill and met by the standard (albeit true) explanation that "litigation is unpredictable". But because litigation is, in fact, unpredictable and usually takes longer to resolve than it does to remodel a kitchen, we should periodically revisit the price.
The same is true for civil litigation.
The same holds true if a litigation regarding court reform were to reach Justice O'Connor's docket when/if she chose to sit on a Circuit Court panel.
(We believe our estimates are, if anything, conservative, and likely to underestimate the true costs of meritless litigation following successful innovation). To put this number in perspective, it represents 3.6percentt of the increase in profits due to the innovation over the next five years.
But the true goal of this litigation strategy has never been to protect workers' speech rights; it is, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor rightly said, "to do away with unions," which not only make life a little harder for the world's plutocrats, but have also become a potent organizing tool in Democratic politics.
Clearly this fee cap is a lowball estimate that hides the true cost of this litigation".
We have failed to achieve true intellectual diversity; our litigation clinics tilt left, and in my field, constitutional law, we need more top conservative professors.
Roughly the same percentage is true for the company's litigation fees.
Forget horse-racing, says one patent lawyer: "Patent litigation is the true sport of kings".Thanks to its inventive tactics, Pfizer is the toast of the track.
