litigation
litigation
Definition
liti·ga·tion (lit′i gā′s̸hən)
noun
- the act or process of carrying on a lawsuit
- a lawsuit
Etymology: LL litigatio
litigation
Synonyms
litigation
Law Definition
n
A legal action; the process of bringing and carrying on
a legal action.
litigation
Usage Examples
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.
litigation Quotes
For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
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