are you spending too much on legal settlement costs?

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Are you spending way more than you should on Legal settlement costs?

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Are you paying too much to settle?

90% or more of cases settle before trial

Too much!Why?

But how much is it costing you to settle?

Primarily because the scope of discovery is too broad

Collect, Process, Keyword Cull, Review for Privilege, etc


ECA - Early Cost Entrapment

1. Pending Litigation: discovery process begins

Custodian List Over-preserve & or over-collect

2. Early Case Assessment: use keywords to assess discovery cost

Use keywords to negotiate down scope & cost of discovery

Settlement ceiling

$3M

Settlement floor

$0.5M

Early Cost Entrapment


Early Case Intelligence

1. Pending Litigation: discovery process begins

Precise identification of relevant custodians

2. Early Case Intelligence: defensibly reduce scope of discovery

Use keywords on a much smaller corpus

$0.8MSettlement ceiling

Settlement floor

$0.5M

Realistic Settlement

Defensibly reduce the scope of discovery


Catelas approach is different

… just as the police would do…

…leading us quickly to prioritize the most

relevant data

Fast, early case intelligence: comprehensive, defensible process to limit scope

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We identify the relevant people and their relationships…


Early Case Intelligence provides critical evidentiary support much earlier in the process

Benefits

4. Saving you millions in Litigation Costs

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Before After Catelas

2. Provides you unprecedented intelligence about that case

3. Allowing you to make more informed decisions

1. Build a defensible case for discovery on Day 1


Value In Multiple Use Cases

Case Type Examples of what Catelas can uncover

Fraud Who else is involved?

Regulatory enquiries What might be in the information we’ve just given to the regulator?

Off Label Promotion Who is sales communicating with? Any inappropriate relationships?

Anti-trust Who is talking to the competitors?Collect the email of the key contacts in the competitor to see what has been passed across

Bribery/FCPA Why are certain people having ‘side conversations’ with the supplier?This junior person is a key link to the minister (a relative?)

Interviews Understand who the interviewee knows – be better informed

Employment What contact have departing employees had with current employees?

Insider dealing Who in our firm knows the people just arrested for insider dealing?

Industrial espionage / information theft

Who has been sending material to webmail?Who knows people in the competitors or in China?

M & A due diligence Does anyone in the acquired business have inappropriate contacts?


Thank You

Robert [email protected]

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http://www.catelas.com/

are you spending too much on legal settlement costs?

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