Wednesday, September 30, 2015

How to Build a Winning Strategy on a Difficult Financial Case



If a financial institution picks you to represent them in an important case, they clearly did so because you have a reputation for knowing your stuff. But let’s face it: you went to law school, not business school, and there’s a whole world of laws, personalities, and jargon that are specific to the financial industry that you likely aren’t familiar with. 

In this situation, the best thing to do would be to retain a finance industry specialist to offer you help during this difficult case.

A Specialist Will Help You See the Big Picture

Finance law can be a big tangled mess of complexities and convolutions. In the midst of all this, you need to answer the key question: what’s my strategy, here? 

A litigation support specialist will help you reduce the massively complicated legal issues down to a few key points from which you can build your overall strategy. If you have a specialist with big-time industry experience, that will be even better. They will be able to give you greater insight into how the industry runs behind the scenes, so you’ll be able to construct a more believable series of events for your case narrative.

Expert Testimony Will Boost Your Case

If you think finance law is complicated for you, imagine what it’s like for the jury. The last thing you want to do is to bore jurors with nonsensical finance talk. This is why you should retain a specialist who can take the stand and help paint a clear picture of the events to the jurors.

Even if the details are complicated, if your witness can simplify the core issues down to a single compelling narrative, it’ll be the umbrella that the rest of the case will live under, and you’ll have a much better shot at lodging that narrative into the jurors’ heads.

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