Claims

For one, companies only have too many people involved rather than assigning responsibility to a single person.

Here is a checklist of those issues that can be part of the give and take of negotiations in workers' compensation cases.

Hidden conflicts of interest mean companies and insurers should consider new outside counsel in securities class actions.

Invisibility can be used deliberately to hide problems or shift responsibility, or inadvertently in ways that muddle lines of authority.

The surge will continue, creating advantages for well-capitalized players and raising challenges for smaller competitors.

Don't resist. You can't. But you can frame their work in ways that will help you shape the outcome of their analysis.

Preparing a brief, even an informal one, gives you a head start with the mediator without tipping your hand to the other side.

There are three, sometimes-overlooked reasons -- one of which defies common sense.