Corporate Defense Litigation

Mass Tort 

Mass tort litigation involves an act or omission that harms multiple people. Some examples are explosions, transportation accidents, groundwater contamination or pollution related to industrial locations. 

From the inception of a matter, strategies designed to limit a company's liability are one of the pillars of value offered by defense law firms in this space. Accelerating and normalizing work product is one of many tactics in an attorney's toolbox to support the high-value representation of clients.  

Combining leading-edge technology, operating in a highly secure environment, and coupling with unparalleled intelligent automation leads to a higher probability of improved legal outcomes. Document automation targeted to the types of work product created by local counsel, national coordinating counsel and experts helps raise the bar of the service levels offered to clients in this space. 

Product Liability 

Product liability refers to the legal liability of sellers or manufacturers to compensate users, buyers and other stakeholders for damages or injuries suffered by defects in goods purchased. 

Corporate defense firms work with and develop a variety of work product in this space. Focusing on risk identification and mitigation is a core element of the legal strategy. Therefore, documents like deposition reports, expert report analyses on products and situations, and reports on injuries from medical doctors and others are standard. 

Partnerships between intelligent document automation providers and best-in-class law firms in the products liability space empower legal teams to gain a substantial competitive advantage. 

Technologies supporting the development of these documents as local counsel, stakeholders and national coordinating counsel work on materials is exceedingly helpful. Document automation is one key lever a legal team can pull to support a more efficient work team and improved work product.  

Medical Device / Pharmaceutical 

Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation often encapsulates how matters develop and are consolidated for pretrial discovery in multidistrict litigation (MDL). It includes a comprehensive review of the techniques associated with litigating a large-scale pharma or medical device case. 

Documents such as plaintiff fact sheets, medical reports, settlement documents such as release and agreement, and many others are integrated into the litigation defense process. Accelerating document production to support legal strategies such as developing quick, initial challenges to some of the science claims, which some plaintiff counsels assert by creating standardized documents efficiently, contributes to reducing long-term legal expenses and supports rapid matter resolutions. 

 Similar to well-known automation approaches such as robotic automation, the development and deployment of document automation technology to streamline manual, repetitive processes helps gain superior legal outcomes.  

Toxic Contamination 

A toxic tort claim is a type of lawsuit in which exposure to a chemical or dangerous substance is claimed to have caused a plaintiff's malady or injury. 

One aspect of defending litigations in this area relates to documents developed by a network of experts. Fields such as oncology experts, risk assessment experts, chemists and other scientists are all part of a well-constructed team. Document automation technologies facilitate the timelier creation of standardized documents that are easier to work with and process due to the consistent format. This is especially true for those legal teams constantly challenging historical norms and creating documents that allow them to analyze the latest trends and science in toxic tort claims. 

Adopting enterprise technology and integrating secure document automation, including integrating high-quality cyber security methodologies into your legal service culture and strategic planning processes, contributes to lower legal costs and better outcomes.  

Vehicle Defects and Accidents 

Litigation in this area is centered on litigation and catastrophic personal injury cases filed in various jurisdictions against auto manufacturers, industrial equipment companies and related industries. 

This area has a tangled web of protagonists involved in litigations. Manufacturers, dealers, those operating the equipment, companies engaged with training materials, various experts and medical professionals all have their hand in litigations in this space. Documents are developed not only in common areas – like deposition reports, expert witness reports, etc.; site inspection reports are also a key document here. This might include content related to vehicle design, site dynamics and situations, operator demographics and characteristics and accident schematics and dynamics. 

Deploying document automation technology to support the unique set of documents in this space also helps gain traction and efficiency within the legal teams supporting this area. Applying leading technology document automation software combined with the institutional knowledge of attorneys with top-flight experience in accident/design ligation helps create bespoke, optimized solutions for legal teams and their corporate clients.