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Next up in my series on topics related to the war room…..getting the ball rolling. Let me start out by saying that every organization is different. It seems obvious, but different firms are going to have variances in the way they approach trial. For instance, some firms will have their lead paralegal on the matter do the planning as far as where the trial team will be staying, where the work-space will be and booking other things such as Hotel rooms and travel arrangements. Another firm may have an attorney in charge of those types of decisions and yet others may depend on secretaries or legal assistants to do that type of planning. It could be there is a litigation practice group that handles it. Whatever the case, when you find out that there is a trial coming and you’ll need to start planning a war room, it is very desirable to be brought in on the planning stage as early as possible for a couple of reasons. Nobody likes a surprise when it comes to something like this, and ...