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The Alameda Point lawsuit was a large and complex dispute that had a lot of different interrelated parts. And litigating large and complex disputes is always inherently costly, especially the discovery, the depositions, and the search for and production of documents itself can be a very substantial price for the client. Our strategy to focus on a key issue and persuade the court to put off all of these other myriad issues sin the lawsuit and to resolve the key issue, which was interpretation of the contract, had huge benefit for the client.

First of all, it was an issue that was very favorable to the city that would allow us to shortcut all the other issues in the case and saved the client a lot of money that he didn’t have to spend on other issues in the case. And as it turned out the court granted the city a summary judgment motion and at that point, long before we ever had to address any other of the complex issues in the case the lawsuit settled on very favorable terms for the city. My client saved a lot of money that way.

San Francisco civil litigation defense attorney David Newdorf reflects on a winning trial strategy that saved tax payers millions of dollars.

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