International Litigation: Winning the Lawsuit Is Often the Easy Part
Companies often go into international litigation asking the wrong first question: can we win?
That matters, of course. But in many cross-border disputes, it is not the most important question. The more important question is whether winning will ever lead to money.
Our international dispute resolution lawyers get calls like this all the time. Someone has a lawsuit and wants to know whether they can win. In a very high percentage of those cases, the answer is yes. If you paid a company $5 million for product and they delivered junk, you probably have a strong case. If you paid $3 million for product and got nothing at all, you can probably win the lawsuit. But that is often the easy part. The harder question is who you are suing and what chance you have of ever collecting from that company.
