litigation

Converse of object

• pend: DAVID DAVIES: I am not going to discuss a piece of pending litigation.
• conduct: By the time of the final hearing in August 2005 doubts about his ability to conduct the litigation arose.
• commence: Q What advice should a solicitor give to a client commencing litigation on a pro bono basis about costs?
• avoid: If we can help our clients avoid litigation in the first place by regular legal updates and training, so much the better.
• pursue: If the mediation does not result in a legally binding settlement, parties are free to pursue litigation or other lawful alternatives.

Adjective modifier

• costly: They embrace provisions which have many times proved a fruitful source of costly litigation.
• protracted: However, a resumption of the protracted litigation which has surrounded Bula delayed the sale process.
• civil: Sue is a lawyer with a background in civil litigation.
• antitrust: She also has experience of antitrust litigation, before both the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Court of First Instance.
• cross-border: Recent presentations have covered interim injunctions in patent cases, parallel imports and patents and cross-border litigation in intellectual property.
• commercial: The key to successful commercial litigation is team work.

Modifies a noun

• privilege: It will need to come within one of the two categories of LPP: advice privilege and litigation privilege.
• lawyer: Not all experts are litigation lawyers and many are not legally qualified.
• solicitor: It is trite to observe that litigation solicitors have not normally negotiated settlements with their clients actually present.

Noun used with modifier

• adversarial: The function of solicitors for the interested parties is therefore more limited than it would be in adversarial litigation.
• patent: He has spent most of his working life in patent litigation in many different technical areas.
• reinsurance: Francis is recommended in the recent edition of the Legal 500 directory for his insurance and reinsurance litigation expertise.
• negligence: The balance of his practice involves large personal injury and some clinical negligence litigation and fatal accidents.
• insolvency: In that time Keith specialized in insolvency litigation and regularly appeared as an advocate in the Royal Courts of Justice.
• tort: On the surface the case looked like a quintessential example of tort litigation gone haywire.