Now Available! 2023 Commercial Litigation Outlook

Welcome to the third annual installment of Seyfarth Shaw's Commercial Litigation Outlook, where our nationally-recognized team provides insights about litigation issues and trends to expect in 2023.

The continuing global tumult and increasing chances for a recession will weigh heavily on the litigation outlook for 2023. We expect an uneven year where some litigation booms, some busts. As was true last year, the trick to navigating the upcoming challenges will require clients and their counsel to be adaptive, creative, and proactive.

In-house counsel will reap the benefits of the already-developed skills and managed risk in some areas (e.g., cyber risk--so 2020 but still very relevant), and will have to crawl up some entirely new learning curves in other areas (e.g., ESG exposures).