The Litigator's Damages Blueprint: The Pragmatic Solution

Coordinating the financial damages portion of a commercial litigation matter comes with significant challenges. Court deadlines, client expectations, litigation costs, and other variables mean that you are continually managing uncertainty, risk, and other moving parts.With so many elements to juggle, even the most experienced attorneys can find themselves with gaps in their damages cases or a disconnect between damages and liability.In The Litigator’s Damages Blueprint: The Pragmatic Solution, veteran damages expert Rick Bero lays out his team’s pragmatic five-step process for building a strong damages analysis. He will walk through the steps to help you:• Create a blueprint for your damages case• Align the damages analysis with the liability case• Coordinate relevant support for the damages analysis• Identify the strongest elements of the analysis• Prepare damages for and through trialUsing real-world examples from his experience as a damages expert in hundreds of commercial litigation cases, Rick brings these concepts to life and offers practical solutions to common pitfalls.Perhaps you have fallen into common damages-related traps and either thought to yourself, or heard other team members make statements such as:•“This case will undoubtedly settle. No need to hire a damages expert until much later – when we know it’s unlikely to settle.”•“We have hired our damages expert. We are set on damages. So now our entire litigation team can get back to focusing on the important piece – liability.”•Or “We will tell the damages expert this is what we would like them to say.” The Litigator’s Damages Blueprint: The Pragmatic Solution aims to help you avoid these traps.It will guide you through an effective damages process. It provides both the insights and the steps for working more confidently and effectively with your expert.Created by Rick and his team of damages experts, Rick’s pragmatic system can benefit a wide range of litigators, from experienced litigators who want to sharpen their skills to junior attorneys just beginning to work on commercial litigation cases.Commercial litigation involves plenty of uncertainty and many challenges. Remove some of that variability by learning a damages process that will help you build a strong and pragmatic case.