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London

Founded in 2012, Signature Litigation has grown into one of London’s pre-eminent specialist dispute resolution practices. From the outset, we set out to do things differently: a conflict-free, disputes-only platform designed to give clients the undivided focus and strategic agility that complex, high-stakes matters demand.

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Gibraltar

Established in 2017, Signature Litigation's Gibraltar office was founded to address growing demand for specialist expertise in commercial litigation and private wealth disputes on the Rock.

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Paris

Signature Litigation AARPI houses one of France’s most enviable product liability practices, with the team also handling commercial and corporate litigation, insurance and reinsurance, toxic tort and ESG, civil fraud and asset tracing, international arbitration, administrative and public law.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt has emerged as one of Europe's foremost financial and commercial centres and, increasingly, as a bridge between European and Asian markets. With that growth comes an increasing demand for sophisticated dispute resolution. Signature Litigation established its Frankfurt office to meet this need, bringing our conflict-free, disputes-only platform to the German market.

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Facing challenge and change with confidence

4 January 2017

THE PROBLEM WITH DISCLOSURE

Outlining what Graham Huntley of Signature Litigation had called ‘the human element’, he pointed out that solicitors often failed to use the optionality under the disclosure menu, with little or any proper debate between opposing solicitors over disclosure; instead, cases were driven by cynical litigation tactics, while more engagement on electronic disclosure was required by judges and lawyers alike.

There was a role here for counsel, he noted, in doing more to test solicitors that they had reduced the burden of disclosure on the judges they appeared before, while acknowledging that they were not always the best people to address the court on the practicalities of managing e-disclosure..."

Read the full article on the CDR website here.