A BETTER OUTCOME

Whether you are in litigation or headed there,

now is the time to evaluate your options.

MEDIATION - TIME WELL SPENT.

THE LITIGATION TRAP

Litigating disputes is often costly and yet rarely produces the type of outcome that the parties envisioned when they started.

Discovery is often a cat and mouse game of unreasonably expansive requests for documents, ensuing protective orders, discovery disputes leading to motions to compel and bar witness testimony at trial;
Expansive witness lists requiring depositions be taken;
Expert witnesses
Hired to prepare reports and give opinion testimony;
Experts are deposed al at hourly rates that can be upwards of $1000.
In Cook County, taking any mid-level case to trial will take anywhere from 4-9 years.
Include post-trial appeals, and you can add years and more expense to the equation
More often than not, parties are left with a process in which the costs can quickly exceed the amount in controversy.

The trap is set when parties mistakenly believe that going to Court is their only option and that their case will proceed to trial quickly and at a reasonable cost all without any awareness of the costs, delays and frustrations they will face. This trap is sprung in slow motion, as months turn into years, the parties look back and realize they have spent a small fortune, one monthly bill at time, all in pursuit of justice. Soon enough the parties are trapped in a process that they cannot escape as they are so heavily invested in litigating their disputes that any rational settlement becomes unattainable.