McDermott Will & Schulte, a global law firm

Russell Hayman and Jon Dean wrote this bylined article posing questions to help in-house lawyers assess several months beforehand if their litigation counsel should remain lead trial counsel in a case going to trial. Positive answers, the authors wrote, mean “you should be well-positioned for your upcoming jury trial,” but negative ones make it “critical to ask whether the company should bring in new trial counsel to present your case to the jury. It’s not too late, unless you do nothing.”