On the Road to Prediction... Next Stop: Control

Can American corporations get control over litigation and mushrooming legal costs using the methods of scientific management modern businesses use to measure and manage themselves? The answer is a qualified yes, if they adopt the right metrics and adhere to scientific methods.

Litigation management is essentially prediction-driven management. Controlling costs, improving performance, early case assessment, and optimizing settlement---all assume scientific measures and methods to produce scientifically reliable predictions about litigation. Accurate prediction is essential for control and for ensuring the reliability of litigation forecasts for the clients and decision-makers who depend on them.

The growing demand for scientifically managing litigation is not without pitfalls. If predictions used in managing litigation are based on guesswork estimates instead of real data, the resultant levels of reliability and control will be---guess what?  Garbage in, garbage out.

Genuine science can deliver the power to predict and control the course of litigation, contain costs and achieve superior performance. 

At Decision Sciences, we are committed to helping our clients realize the precision, performance and power of scientific litigation management.