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LitWatch has been analyzing
and critiquing the performance of lawyers in civil litigation since 1993.
For the last ten years, LitWatch published real-time litigation news reports
through the news service. LitWatch has unique and independent insight into
what makes some cases work and others fail.
One thing we notice is that many
clients opt for the largest, most expensive law firms, even though their work
product and results are often sub par. Indeed, the expensive efforts often
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insurance coverage). Worse yet, their inexperience or incompetence do far
more harm than good -- there's no Hippocratic oath for lawyers.
The theory behind "bigger is better"
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expertise or competence.
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