Efficient. Creative. Strategic.

Efficiency and creativity drive our litigation strategy as we focus on achieving our clients’ business, strategic and financial goals.

We litigate cases throughout the United States for clients from all over the world.  We offer the same high quality legal service and attention to all clients, whether they are individual inventors or academic institutions, start-up companies or established industry leaders.  Our litigators successfully handled intellectual property disputes in-house and in law firms, large and small.  We bring these experiences together to provide superior litigation services at a reasonable price. 

The low cost of doing business in Cleveland, Ohio enables us to offer our clients lower hourly rates compared to our competition throughout the country.  In addition, we maintain appropriately-sized teams of knowledgeable attorneys for each matter—you will never feel that your case is being handled by an ever-changing army of associates, clerks and staffers.  By quickly aligning case strategy with your objectives and focusing early on the key issues, we are able to properly and economically develop the case, often resulting in an early and favorable resolution for our clients.

Breaking the (Waterfall) Method

Few businesses like to be in litigation, either as plaintiff or defendant. Litigation diverts attention from your real business, and it takes time and energy away from managers, engineers, IT, sales and marketing folks in addition to the financial costs of the case. Yet, sometimes it cannot or should not be avoided.

Regardless, the real goal of litigation should be to achieve your business objectives—strategic and financial—as efficiently as possible. So why do so many cases end up feeling like losses even when you “win”?

Part of the problem is that court rules organize a case into chronological phases, and lawyers are trained to be logical and methodical, and the combined result is a typical litigation plan (see below).

In essence, the chart above illustrates a Waterfall project management method. Tasks proceed in a structured order and, like water over falls, the case (slowly) cascades towards eventual resolution. It is organized and methodical, and a good way to manage a big team of litigators to work up a case.

Unfortunately, a typical structured litigation plan leaves little room for flexibility. It is hard to account for changing requirements or parameters (outcome, budget, etc.) once the case has started. As a result, crucial (or case-ending) information or activities may not be obtained until late in the process, sometimes years after the case starts. Such a system also tends to result in attorneys spending an excessive amount of time and money on activities that have limited utility, but are otherwise performed based on the schedule.

Flexible, Agile & Strategic from Beginning to End.

We want to achieve your objectives as quickly and efficiently as possible, so we scrapped the Waterfall method in favor of a nimble, flexible approach to litigation. Similar to the Agile development methodology used in software etc., we perform a series of case “sprints” to develop the case. Each sprint is informed by the results of prior sprints and any updated case parameters (outcome, budget, etc.). This allows us to focus on the most promising strategies and theories to achieve your goals, while discarding or downgrading others.