Dispute Prevention, Intervention and Resolution
Identifying risk before it becomes litigation, intervening while a matter can still be shaped, and guiding it from strategy through resolution.
Dispute Prevention, Intervention, and Resolution
Three stages, three different jobs
Prevention is the cheapest stage and the one clients reach for last. Intervention is the stage where a matter can still be shaped rather than defended. Resolution is where most firms are first called, and where the options have already narrowed.
For many clients, Jeff becomes the first call long before litigation begins, and that is deliberate. The period before anyone has filed anything is the period in which the facts can still be established privately, the other side is not yet committed to a position in public, and the cost of being wrong is measured in weeks rather than years.
What intervention actually involves
It starts with working out what the dispute is really about, which is frequently not what the correspondence says it is about. It involves establishing the facts independently, so the strategy rests on the record rather than on the client’s account of it. And it involves deciding early whether the objective is to win, to contain, or to exit, because those three ask for different conduct from the first day.
We help clients identify risks, evaluate options, coordinate the right team of legal and business professionals, and guide complex matters from strategy through resolution.
The parts of a dispute that are not legal
Legal problems rarely exist in isolation. They affect businesses, families, careers, finances, health, and relationships. The most effective counsel therefore requires more than legal knowledge. It requires judgment, perspective, compassion, and the ability to help clients navigate uncertainty with confidence.
In practice that means the communications question, the lender question, the employee question and the family question are handled as part of the matter rather than after it.
Jeff Grant on this subject
- Why White Collar Defendants Need a Private General Counsel: The GrantLaw ApproachWhy a criminal defense lawyer, however good, is not the person managing what the case does to a marriage, a payroll or a balance sheet.
- Private General Counsel Services for Complex Situations and TransactionsThe consigliere model, and the specialists a serious matter reaches: tax, bankruptcy, family law, mental health.
Other practice areas
- Private General CounselThe access of an in-house general counsel, without the cost of one. Ongoing judgment for executives, entrepreneurs, professionals and family businesses.
- White Collar LawMatters involving financial crimes, fraud and investigations by the SEC, the Department of Justice and the IRS, before charges and after them.
- Closely-Held & Family BusinessesWhere the business, the balance sheet and the family are the same conversation. Counsel for owners facing legal, business, family and reputational questions at once.
- Second Opinions & Case ReviewA confidential read on where a matter actually stands, delivered alongside your existing attorneys and not in place of them.
- Nationwide with Local Co-CounselA nationwide network of attorneys, investigators, forensic accountants and compliance specialists, assembled per matter, with a single point of strategic leadership.