IMO it’s also very important to be incredibly hands-on, to manage your attorney after getting them to explain the case to you. When hiring one of the best atto

IMO it’s also very important to be incredibly hands-on, to manage your attorney after getting them to explain the case to you. When hiring one of the best attorneys to defend the type of action brought I had to be very clear about what they were to do in between our calls (ask the third party to agree to drop it if we get plaintiff to drop it, ask plaintiff these questions, if they don’t do X we will do Y, offer them Z). It was also important to stop them from taking pointless actions that would have cost tons of hours: do not read the discovery (hundreds of pages of details that wouldn’t change things), do not read the third party’s ToS looking for a loophole (another ~50 pages) as the company likely had already spent hundreds of thousands writing it and millions testing it in court. We would have done those things if necessary but they didn’t need to be done simultaneously and the settlement attempts paid off immediately. It was not an IP case and I don’t think it had merit, but it would have likely cost at least a little more (or possibly much, much more) just to find out and I wasn’t interested in finding out. It was not a scenario where some floodgates could be opened if we settled.