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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
litigation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civil
▪ If this had been ordinary civil litigation I would have agreed.
▪ The constitutional question before the court is whether a sitting president may be forced to face civil litigation while in office.
▪ But this is not ordinary civil litigation: it concerns children.
▪ After that, Feingold joined a Madison law firm and practiced civil litigation, including First Amendment law.
▪ Allen goes on to explain that his own work is in civil litigation.
▪ Clearly civil litigation is often very expensive.
▪ It is also manna to lawyers looking for juicy briefs in civil litigation.
commercial
▪ My articles are divided into three eight-month seats in each of company, commercial conveyancing and litigation.
▪ Mark Waite of Sugarlands, Texas, does commercial litigation, which is the most grueling and unpredictable legal work.
▪ According to, partner in commercial litigation with Biggart Baillie Gifford, there are several.
▪ Civil and commercial litigation allows me to help a client stand up for his rights.
▪ Many firms-not just the leading commercial litigation practices-are well prepared for 26 April.
▪ Mark Wood has been appointed a partner at Newcastle-based law firm Wilkinson Maughan's commercial litigation department.
personal
▪ At this stage it is worth emphasising that we still deal with personal injury litigation under an adversarial system.
▪ Examples of such rules include divorce, contracts, or personal liability litigation.
▪ They establish a conventional pattern and timescale for basic interlocutory stages in personal injury litigation.
▪ Further reading 2 Practice development Introduction Most high street practices will undertake a certain amount of personal injury litigation.
■ NOUN
costs
▪ The rule is, obviously, confined to litigation costs.
▪ The upshot of the litigation was that the non-litigation costs, together with the litigation costs, were taxed by the taxing master.
▪ So the court has full discretion over litigation costs incurred in proceedings between mortgagor and mortgagee.
▪ They all denied any responsibility and claimed that litigation costs forced an early settlement.
▪ These costs were not litigation costs.
partner
▪ We are proud that two of our very best litigation partners devoted more than three months trying this case.
■ VERB
avoid
▪ It can help avoid expensive and protracted litigation.
▪ Most lawyers spend most of their time helping clients prevent or resolve disputes, trying their best to avoid costly litigation.
▪ Abbott in a statement denied wrongdoing and said it agreed to the settlement to avoid costly litigation.
conduct
▪ The bill envisages that non-lawyers belonging to professional bodies may be given rights to conduct litigation in some types of cases.
▪ First, only solicitors may begin and conduct litigation on behalf of others.
involve
▪ It is clear that all solicitors involved in litigation are feeling the strain, though most maintain that the changes are positive.
▪ She is deeply involved in litigation and negotiations in which the potential stakes for city residents are massive.
▪ All claims involving litigation including recoveries Branches will deal with Public Liability claims where the estimate does not exceed £2500.
pending
▪ Ron Bayley, a spokesman for the Seattle company, said he could not comment on pending litigation.
▪ It is our policy not to comment on pending litigation.
▪ And certain personnel records can be withheld, for example, as can documents relating to pending litigation.
relate
▪ And certain personnel records can be withheld, for example, as can documents relating to pending litigation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Nabarros took leading firm awards in property litigation and local government.
▪ On 26 April the parties to litigation will be thrown headlong into a new landscape.
▪ The litigation and bankruptcy filing are not expected to have an impact on Barneys's expansion plans, the company said.
▪ The litigation will probably drag on for years.
▪ The new Act removes the monopoly on starting and conducting litigation.
▪ The only serious potential obstacle to the plan foreseen at the time was litigation by employer and union groups.
▪ Unions have often provided the continuity behind such litigation when the employee is unable to do so.
▪ Warner Brothers didn't like the idea because of litigation etc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Litigation

Litigation \Lit`i*ga"tion\, n. [L. litigatio, fr. litigare to dispute, litigate; lis, litis, dispute, lawsuit (OL. stlis) + agere to carry on. See Agent.] The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
litigation

1560s, "disputation," from Late Latin litigationem (nominative litigatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin litigare "to dispute, quarrel, strive," from phrase litem agere, from litem (nominative lis) "lawsuit, dispute, quarrel, strife" + agere "to drive, conduct" (see act). Meaning "act of carrying on a lawsuit" is from 1640s.

Wiktionary
litigation

n. (context legal English) The conduct of a lawsuit.

WordNet
litigation

n. a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights [syn: judicial proceeding]

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Usage examples of "litigation".

Roman Church should first address himself to the chief Priest of that City, lest haply your clergy, being profaned by the litigation of the Forum, should be occupied in secular rather than religious matters.

It appeared to me that Julian Mantle, hard-hitting, bone-crunching litigation counsel to the well-heeled, had indeed been elevated from a human being passing through life without a care for anyone, to a spiritual being passing through life caring only about others.

The situation requires, therefore, not only definite rules fixing the powers of the courts in cases of jurisdiction over the same persons and things in actual litigation, but also a spirit of reciprocal comity and mutual assistance to promote due and orderly procedure.

Court has possession of property which is the subject of litigation or must have control of it in order to proceed with the cause and grant the relief sought, the jurisdiction of one court must yield to that of the other.

This advantage was enhanced by the disposition of the Court, in litigation embracing the latter type of legislation, to shift the burden of proof from the litigant charging unconstitutionality to the State seeking enforcement.

However, a statute designating a State official as the proper person to receive service of process in such litigation must, to be valid, contain a provision making it reasonably probable that a notice of such service will be communicated to the person sued.

State may condition the right to institute litigation, so may it establish its terms for the interposition of certain defenses.

State legislatures may classify litigation and adopt one type of procedure for one class and a different type for another.

Through contacts he found his niche in the litigation marketplace as a fireman.

As of today, there has been no litigation, no claims, no damaging studies published in the journals.

Its lawyer was portrayed as a radical who was unafraid to use litigation to preserve history.

We, you and I, can control the litigation if we move your lawsuit from D.

Plus, the government has to approve the merger, and they typically want the litigation cleaned up before saying yes.

An editorial in Investment Times called upon Congress to take a serious look at litigation reform.

He would notify their insurance carrier who would assign it to a litigation firm, probably one in Philadelphia.