The program is designed to work with existing litigation firms to decide what litigation tasks needs to be done, develop plans for subcontracting legal research and document management and institute task based billing.

Identify manpower assigned to project. Reduce deposition summaries; eliminate the associate and senior partner and monitor support staff.

Make sure client is aware of Litigation Budget Chart and discuss its relevance to the state of the litigation.

Adjust the Litigation Chart to conform to proposed future tasks.

Meet with law firm to ensure their understanding and acceptance of the budget.

Explain variance report to management. Where there exists a 15% variance identify to management immediately the reason and obtain their approval to continue

Where costs exceeds budget meet with management to develop alternate strategies.