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Industry leaders recognize that today’s larger, more technical cases, need to be managed differently. A new and more effective approach has emerged that works so well, it is now considered essential.
Maria Miller is a Trial Specialist: a project manager with consulting skills, who functions as a single point of communication and coordination. Partners need a full time person dedicated to helping them manage the case. Using an experienced and highly skilled trial specialist is much more effective for everyone involved, from team members to
experts, witnesses, vendors and clients. Maria Miller has proven that this method is the best way to handle larger cases.
Project Management
The large case is usually managed for the most part by the lead attorney with some responsibilities shared by other partners, associates and paralegals. Have you been parceling out areas of responsibility to your team? Larger cases make it more difficult to keep up with everyone, balance work loads and schedule everything; there are too many people involved, too much to get
done and too many issues to manage. Simply communicating important information to team members is very time consuming. Most attorneys are not trained to be managers or consultants. When you have a larger case, why not make the most of everyone’s efforts by using a trial specialist? Hire a professional dedicated to helping the partner with time consuming management issues. This person’s responsibility is to know what needs to be done, which segments
right into scheduling, staffing, and balancing work loads. As a single point of communication and coordination, Trial Specialist Maria Miller is aware of the status and resources of the case at all times.
Trial Consulting
Typically a consultant is not continually involved in the case and consulting is not considered until closer to trial. How many times have you wished that your witnesses looked better in their video depositions? There are benefits to starting witness school during discovery. Attorneys are very bright and they do an incredible job of assimilating massive amounts of information into a
story. After working on a case for a long time and becoming intimate with the details of the case, it may become difficult for them to distance themselves and view the evidence as a juror or judge would - - for the first time. Maria Miller sees these issues very clearly.
She helps the trial team maximize their efforts by doing mock trials, perfecting demonstratives, assisting with the development of courtroom rapport, working with witnesses on their deposition and courtroom demeanor, selecting courtroom technology, etc. She has proven to be invaluable in cutting through to the essence of issues, streamlining
testimony and perfecting demonstratives.
Save Time and Money
Maria Miller will undoubtedly reduce costs daily through her experience in effective management. Funds can be strategically allocated for more beneficial means such as mock trials, better demonstratives and better experts. The client pays the partner to lead and try the case. They do not pay attorneys to do non-attorney work. Here are some of the benefits of using Trial Specialist Maria Miller:
It is much less expensive to pay Maria Miller to deal with most of the management and administrative details than partners.
A good manager knows the most cost effective way to complete projects. She will reduce costs daily through effective project management. Most team members do not even see the client’s bills. Working on cases is almost like charging on a charge account, never seeing the bill and never having to pay the bill! Maria Miller saves attorney time by receiving requests for projects from attorneys. They call her, she finds people to work on the projects, fields their questions, monitors the status to make sure the assignment is done correctly and completed on time. She is wonderful at organizing and coordinating work done by others – making sure that efforts are not duplicated and that team members can benefit from each others work. Over an extended period of time, many many timekeepers work on a case. Having a point person who knows the work that has been done AND fields all requests for projects will
significantly save time, money and frustration. Maria Miller continually captures incoming key documents and testimony by topic as you build the case. Typically, an enormous amount of time is saved by not have to look for the same document and testimony over and over again. A person dedicated strictly to this case adds a layer of continuity by providing someone who can fill the gaps as team members phase in and out to work on other cases. She maximizes the utility of technological advances. Maria Miller brings an immense wealth of knowledge from working with so many people in the industry.
Litigators like to try cases and they want the case to be run the way they want it run. Using a trial specialist for continuous consulting and time consuming project management is by far the most critical element for ultimate achievement -- for partners, the rest of their team and the client. If you have not had a case professionally
managed - - you are in for a real treat!
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