Our litigation philosophy Litigation is expensive. Whether you are paying a lawyer on an hourly basis, a fixed fee, or a contingency fee, or whether you're a plaintiff or a defendant, litigation is still expensive. It costs you time, energy and emotion, and causes you aggravation and worry. Our goal is to minimize the overall expense to you as much as possible.
Most clients think that the cheapest way to handle a lawsuit is to avoid it.
They think if nothing is going on, they don't have to pay and the case won't be bothering them. We have been saddled by this approach by many clients throughout our practice. Unless the client is extremely lucky and the matter somehow resolves itself, sooner or later the day of reckoning will come and the client will find that counsel are scrambling around, attempting to locate witnesses, marshal evidence which may have disappeared, and trying to refresh the recollections of the client and other crucial witnesses of events which may have happened years before. Newly-discovered evidence often leads to new theories of the case, which starts the cycle of discovery and investigation all over again. Deferring expending time and money on your case costs you even more money, time, and aggravation.