When Christopher Boeck, an associate with Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, walked into a mediator’s office one Wednesday morning in March 2010, he didn’t know if his client would obtain a satisfactory settlement or if he and his two colleagues would take the case to trial. The trio, working pro bono, already had spent more than a combined 100 hours on the suit.
“We felt we had a good case, a sympathetic client, a lot of strong evidence,” he says. But the lawyers also believed the defendant was a proud individual and unlikely to settle. “I think going into it, we anticipated we would not settle,” he says.
