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In a well-run firm, therefore, you might expect [[litigation]] to be an unglamorous backwater | One of the sainted [[risk controller]] functions of a financial services firm, the [[litigation]] department deals with customer claims, where the firm has disappointed expectations, and prosecutes the firm’s own ones, where its clients have. | ||
In a well-run firm, therefore, you might expect [[litigation]] to be an unglamorous backwater. | |||
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, censorious [[Mediocre lawyer|solicitors]] who will decline to make any call, however safe, or sanction any risk, however remote. | 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, censorious [[Mediocre lawyer|solicitors]] who will decline to make any call, however safe, or sanction any risk, however remote. | ||