Protect Yourself from Business Lawsuits: And Lawyers Like Me Hardcover - 1998

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Corporate litigation has spun out of control. Large companies can spend up to 10 percent of their quarterly earnings on legal costs. What can you -- as an employee, CEO, or entrepreneur -- do to protect your company and your career from business lawsuits? In this groundbreaking book, Thomas A. Schweich, himself a lawyer, offers novel and inexpensive advice about how companies and their employees can use commonsense business tactics to avoid potentially devastating litigation.

For too long, companies have entrusted outside counsel to resolve disputes through litigation -- often at great expense to their bottom line and to individual careers caught up in the ongoing lawsuits. Now, "you" can work to resolve these problems yourself by avoiding the Eight Big Mistakes that often result in litigation -- including bad writing, bad estimating, speculation, bad research, side deals, and others. These mistakes are made every day in every kind of company -- from huge conglomerates to one-person start-ups. And everyone from the receptionist to the CEO makes them. One mistake at any level of the company can result in tremendous disruption within the company and a very costly verdict. The author also describes the Four Shields that any company can construct using internal resources to protect itself from the litigation scourge.