Mark Cheffo, co-chair of the product liability and mass torts litigation practice at Dechert, said that in the early days of clients pulling together coalitions of lawyers from different law firms to build defense teams, there was some skepticism about the approach.

He remembers one general counsel in particular telling him that the “virtual law firm” arrangements she’d seen usually ended up in a situation where “one firm does virtually all the work.”

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