Litigation Management Training Course

Participants can triage new disputes and determine proportionate initial actions.

• Intake checklist for pleadings, demand letters, notices and internal reports
• Jurisdiction, limitation periods and service requirements identified at intake
• Initial conflict checks covering counsel, employees, suppliers and counterparties
• Triage criteria for urgency, value, precedent, publicity and regulatory consequences
• Immediate protective actions for injunctions, asset freezes and limitation deadlines
• Matter classification codes supporting portfolio reporting and trend analysis

Participants can produce an early case assessment that supports informed litigation decisions.

• Early case assessment framing claims, defences, remedies and factual disputes
• Case theory stated through legal elements, evidence and persuasive narrative
• Merits analysis separating pleaded allegations from provable facts
• Exposure ranges calculated for damages, costs, interest and business disruption
• Recoverability assessed through assets, insurance, guarantees and enforcement prospects
• Decision memorandum recording assumptions, uncertainties, options and recommendation

Participants can establish governance arrangements for controlled and timely litigation decisions.

• Litigation steering committee terms of reference and decision thresholds
• Authority matrix for filing, settlement, appeals and external spend approvals
• Escalation protocols for material developments, adverse rulings and media interest
• Decision logs documenting rationale, approvers, evidence and follow-up actions
• Privilege-aware governance papers separating legal advice from business records
• Reporting cadence matched to case milestones, risk ratings and budget variance

Participants can issue and manage legal holds that preserve relevant evidence defensibly.

• Legal hold triggers arising from disputes, threats, investigations and foreseeable claims
• Custodian interviews identifying records, systems, devices and physical evidence
• Hold notices stating scope, preservation actions, acknowledgements and contacts
• Suspending routine deletion, recycling, overwriting and records-destruction schedules
• Preservation register tracking custodians, sources, acknowledgements and release dates
• Chain-of-custody records for physical items, devices and forensic collections

Participants can build an evidence plan linked to the elements of a claim or defence.

• Issues matrix linking legal elements, facts, evidence gaps and owners
• Chronologies built from contemporaneous documents, witness accounts and transaction records
• Evidence registers recording source, relevance, authenticity and custody status
• Interview plans distinguishing fact gathering from privileged legal advice
• Digital evidence risks involving messaging platforms, metadata and personal devices
• Admissibility considerations for hearsay, authenticity, originals and expert evidence

Participants can select, instruct and supervise external counsel against defined matter requirements.

• Counsel selection criteria covering expertise, conflicts, capacity, fees and diversity
• Request-for-proposal questions testing strategy, staffing and budget discipline
• Engagement letters defining scope, assumptions, rates, reporting and confidentiality
• Instructions to counsel organised around facts, objectives, documents and deadlines
• Staffing plans preventing unnecessary seniority, duplication and unmanaged handovers
• Performance scorecards measuring responsiveness, strategy, cost and outcome quality

Participants can prepare and manage phase-based litigation budgets with meaningful variance analysis.

• Phase-based budgets covering pleadings, discovery, motions, trial and appeal
• UTBMS task codes used to analyse invoices and legal spend
• Budget assumptions for staffing, volume, experts, travel and hearing duration
• Alternative fee arrangements including caps, fixed fees and success components
• Monthly variance analysis comparing actual spend, forecast and approved budget
• Invoice review checks for scope compliance, narratives, rates and disbursements

Participants can manage procedural milestones and evaluate the strategic purpose of applications.

• Pleadings calendar tracking filing dates, service requirements and response deadlines
• Statement-of-case review against legal elements, remedies and evidential support
• Procedural motions assessed for cost, delay, disclosure and settlement impact
• Court orders translated into actions, owners, deadlines and evidence requirements
• Limitation defences and jurisdiction challenges identified before substantive commitments
• Procedural risk register maintained after hearings, rulings and timetable changes

Participants can plan proportionate electronic discovery and oversee document-review controls.

• EDRM stages applied from identification through production and presentation
• Data maps identifying repositories, owners, retention rules and access constraints
• Collection protocols preserving metadata, audit trails and source integrity
• Search-term design using concepts, custodians, dates and iterative sampling
• Technology-assisted review controls including training sets, validation and quality checks
• Production logs recording document sets, formats, redactions and delivery dates

Participants can protect privileged and confidential material during litigation management activities.

• Legal advice privilege distinguished from ordinary commercial communications
• Litigation privilege assessed against purpose, timing and anticipated proceedings
• Privilege logs recording document descriptions, dates, authors and claimed basis
• Common-interest arrangements documented before sharing sensitive legal materials
• Redaction protocols protecting privileged, personal and commercially sensitive information
• Secure collaboration controls for counsel portals, access rights and data transfers

Participants can prepare witnesses and coordinate business stakeholders without coaching evidence improperly.

• Witness identification based on knowledge, credibility, availability and document ownership
• Witness interview protocols separating recollection, documents and legal preparation
• Preparation plans addressing chronology, exhibits, questioning and hearing logistics
• Fact witness boundaries distinguishing preparation from improper evidence coaching
• Executive briefing packs presenting testimony risks and business implications
• Employee communications protecting morale, confidentiality and non-retaliation obligations

Participants can commission and manage expert work that supports the case theory and budget.

• Expert selection criteria covering independence, qualifications, methodology and availability
• Terms of reference defining questions, data sources, assumptions and deliverables
• Daubert-style reliability considerations for methods, testing and error rates
• Expert data requests coordinated with preservation, confidentiality and disclosure obligations
• Joint expert meetings and reports managed without compromising case strategy
• Expert cost controls linked to work plans, milestones and report revisions

Participants can evaluate and execute settlement strategies within approved authority limits.

• BATNA and WATNA analysis informing negotiation range and walk-away points
• Decision trees modelling probability, damages, costs and timing scenarios
• Settlement authority bands aligned with governance and insurer-consent requirements
• Mediation preparation covering briefs, decision-makers, documents and confidential parameters
• Without-prejudice communications managed under applicable procedural and evidential rules
• Settlement agreements addressing releases, confidentiality, payment and non-disparagement terms

Participants can coordinate trial readiness through controlled preparation and hearing logistics.

• Trial-readiness checklist covering pleadings, evidence, witnesses, experts and logistics
• Trial bundles indexed against issues, exhibits, witnesses and court requirements
• Daily hearing reports capturing evidence, rulings, actions and strategic implications
• War-room protocols coordinating counsel, client representatives and document support
• Demonstrative evidence assessed for accuracy, admissibility and persuasive value
• Contingency plans for absent witnesses, adverse rulings and technology failures

Participants can assess post-judgment options and plan enforcement or recovery action.

• Appeal assessment considering errors, standards of review, cost and prospects
• Stay applications evaluated against enforcement risk and security requirements
• Judgment enforcement routes assessed through assets, garnishment and registration
• Cross-border recovery issues involving recognition, local counsel and sovereign immunity
• Recovery trackers monitoring payments, interest, costs and outstanding obligations
• Post-judgment communications coordinated with regulators, insurers and affected stakeholders

Participants can prepare decision-useful litigation reports for executives, finance and insurers.

• Executive dashboards showing exposure, milestones, spend, reserves and decisions
• Probability ranges explained with evidence, assumptions and material uncertainty
• IAS 37 provision considerations for probable obligations and reliable estimates
• Insurer reporting requirements covering notice, cooperation, consent and recoveries
• Board papers distinguishing legal advice, commercial risk and requested approvals
• Portfolio trend analysis identifying recurring causes, jurisdictions and business units

Participants can coordinate litigation decisions with regulatory, communications and crisis-management functions.

• Parallel proceedings mapped across civil, regulatory, criminal and employment forums
• Regulatory disclosure triggers assessed with legal, compliance and investor-relations teams
• Media holding statements aligned with pleadings, confidentiality and privilege constraints
• Crisis communications approval workflows preventing inconsistent public statements
• Stakeholder mapping covering customers, employees, regulators, lenders and communities
• Reputational risk scenarios incorporated into settlement and trial recommendations

Participants can use litigation data to improve controls, reduce recurrence and inform prevention priorities.

• Matter taxonomy designed for claims type, cause, forum and outcome
• Key performance indicators measuring duration, spend, settlement and recovery rates
• Root-cause analysis using five whys and fishbone diagrams
• Closed-matter reviews identifying process failures, control gaps and policy changes
• Playbooks standardising intake, holds, counsel instructions and reporting templates
• Management actions assigned with owners, dates and measurable prevention outcomes

Participants can build, review and present a complete litigation management file for a material dispute.

• Case assessment synthesising merits, exposure, evidence gaps and recoverability
• Governance plan assigning decision rights, escalations and reporting cadence
• Legal hold and evidence plan covering custodians, repositories and preservation controls
• Phase-based budget with assumptions, fee controls and variance triggers
• Disclosure, witness and expert plans linked to case theory
• Settlement decision tree comparing negotiated resolution, trial and appeal scenarios
• Executive presentation defending recommendations, risks, required approvals and next actions