Value
Engineering...in the legal process
Value
Engineering
Applying Value Engineering
to Law - Anything that involves a series of processes
as part of achieving a goal should be evaluated for optimization.
Value Engineering ("VE") involves identifying and eliminating
unnecessary expenditures or identifying processes that can be
improved without affecting quality.
Scholefield is staffed with full-time degreed industrial
engineers who are trained and experienced at both process and
project optimization. Also, the in-house engineering personnel
posses extensive real-world engineering and construction project
management experience.
These skills combined with a decade of construction litigation
and transactional work to allow Scholefield to apply VE to its
legal work.
Tthe Scholefield VE method provides a transparent
legal experience for you that enables you to fully understand
the costs (including potential events that could result in cost
savings), the timing, and the goals for any matter before you
commit to proceed. How we get to that end result may be significantly
different than with a traditional firm.
Applying Value Engineering
to the Litigation Process
Some value engineering examples
that Scholefield brings to the litigation process are:
•Interviews
with the you and your key personnel and a review of key documents
allow Scholefield to prepare a "schedule of values"
for your litigation. This schedule details the steps your litigation
will follow and identifies when you can expect to incur the costs.
This creates a remarkable tool to assist you with important decisions
related to budgeting for the litigation and optimal times for
settlement, if settlement is desired or feasible.
•Early Analysis
of your matter provides a direction to Scholefield's in-house
technical staff to analyze the underlying facts prior to retaining
paid experts. The in-house technical staff's work translates into
the ability to present the client's case at mediation in most
matters without hiring costly outside experts. This keeps costs
down and promotes settlement in cases where settlement appears
to be the best option.
•A focused directive
given to outside paid experts helps advance the experts' understanding
of the issues as well as improve the experts' efficiencies. Our
first-hand interviews, elimination of redundant investigation
or activities, and provide an intelligent evaluation of potential
percipient experts.
•Identifying
similarities in various matters helps us standardize
written discovery and deposition questioning, to get directly
to the pertinent facts.
We are...
Anything But
Typical
Call us now to discuss how you can benefit by
using a different approach to managing to your legal needs.
858-613-0888
info@construction-laws.com
  
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