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Litigation analysis for people making difficult decisions.
Substantive articles, case commentary and practical guides across the firm’s areas of practice. Written to explain the issue, not to manufacture urgency.
Current analysis
Issues in focus.
These pieces are general legal information. They are designed to give a useful framework for a problem before the facts of a particular case are applied.
What changes when a dispute moves to an appellate court?
Standards of review, the fixed record and why appellate strategy is narrower than trial strategy.
Building the record early in a contested estate dispute.
Chronology, testamentary documents, ownership records and focused preservation.
Documents, leverage and early case architecture in a business dispute.
Organizing the legal relationship, electronic evidence, remedies and commercial objective.
When income is not obvious from a tax return.
Corporations, retained earnings, business expenses and income imputation.
What should happen before a civil claim is filed?
Limitation review, preservation, damages and choosing the right first step.