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Fulbright & Jaworski Takes Pulse of 300 Corporate Counsel for Survey of U.S. Litigation Trends

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
September 02, 2004

What are the biggest litigation concerns right now in corporate America? What industries face the highest incidence of legal action? How do corporate law departments regard their litigation firms? And by what criteria do general counsel select the firms that litigate on their behalf, and what areas of legal service do they feel need the greatest improvement?

These were just a few of the questions kicking around last year among members of an emerging issues group within the litigation practice at Fulbright & Jaworski. Fulbright litigators wanted more than intuition and anecdote to tell them where the business was developing, and how it might be changing. Despite a healthy practice and no shortage of work in the U.S. and internationally, the emerging issues group thought there might be a way to apply some hard numbers to the American litigation marketplace, and to answer the age-old question, how can the firm enhance its service to its own corporate clients.

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