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{{A|people|}}One of the sainted [[risk controller]] functions of a financial services firm, the [[litigation]] department deals with ongoing customer complaints, where the firm has disappointed expectations, and prosecutes the firm’s own claims, where its clients have. | {{A|people|}}One of the sainted [[risk controller]] functions of a financial services firm, the [[litigation]] department deals with ongoing customer complaints, where the firm has disappointed expectations, and prosecutes the firm’s own claims, where its clients have. | ||
In a well-run firm, therefore, you might expect a [[litigation department]] to be an unglamorous backwater, and this is how it used to be. But, after the dislocations of recent times, many a department has come to resemble some kind of [[military-industrial complex]]. Teams have gone from half a junior lawyer, on flexi-time, between spells of maternity leave, to fully weaponised Death Stars of fusty, naturally censorious [[Mediocre lawyer|solicitors]] lacking the appetite for any call, however safe, or any risk, however remote. | In a well-run firm, therefore, you might expect a [[litigation department]] to be an unglamorous backwater, and this is how it used to be. But, after the dislocations of recent times, many a [[litigation department]] has, like [[human resources]], come to resemble some kind of [[military-industrial complex]]. Teams have gone from half a junior lawyer, on flexi-time, between spells of maternity leave, to fully weaponised Death Stars of fusty, naturally censorious [[Mediocre lawyer|solicitors]] lacking the appetite for any call, however safe, or any risk, however remote. | ||
But as the world shakes off the malignities of the last decade; as the business environs drift back to the benign, the pendulum might at last be falling back. So, to keep themselves in silk in times of fair fortune, {{t|litigation}} teams have invented an advisory function. They encourage their colleagues to consult them, ahead of time, to avoid future angst. | But as the world shakes off the malignities of the last decade; as the business environs drift back to the benign, the pendulum might at last be falling back. So, to keep themselves in silk in times of fair fortune, {{t|litigation}} teams have invented an advisory function. They encourage their colleagues to consult them, ahead of time, to avoid future angst. | ||