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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
In a recent patent lawsuit that needed to be staffed lightly (damages around $1M, not $10M) I relied on a junior guy to handle moving discovery forward. My guy and opposing junior guy started having email fights like this. I was looking at the bills after a month of this: we billed $60,000 for fighting about nonsense. I had to step in and start handling it.
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Maddening. All these years of efficiencies accruing from tech and yet schools still aren't training kids to act like business people instead of lawyers.
If you want to settle something effectively, start with math (cost of litigation, collectibility, time value of $$$) and work backwards. Only get into the issues and legal arguments when discussion of broad economic costs/benefits fails. Do it in reverse and everybody wastes time and enflames each other with discussion merits of claim and defense.
You can never prove to a person that his argument is wrong. But you can prove that spending X today is economically smarter than possibly spending XXX over the next three years, and being seriously fucking annoyed in the process.
