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Index of Contents

1.     Author's Preface

Part A. Understanding the Justice Machine

A1.     Do you want to fight a court case? A2.     The true nature of the justice machine. A3.     Sex and the Justice Machine. A4.     The four noble truths of the Justice Machine. A5.     The Four-Fold path.

Part B. Do you want to Start a fight?

B0.     Introduction: Do you want to deploy the Justice Machine? B1.     The Balance of Personal Power B2.     The Governing Environment B3.     The Occupation of the Field B4.     The Leadership B5.     The Organization and its Management B6.     Conclusion – Litigating to win

Part C. Preparing for the Fight

C0.     Preparing for Litigation: Five Action points. C1.     Planning Amorally C2.     Planning Defense C3.     Planning Defensive Litigation C4.     Timing the Attack C5.     Planning for stalemates C6.     Conclusion – Plan Honestly

Part D. Fighting Strategies

D0.     Configuring Litigation: Seven Strategy Tools D1.     Match Magnitude of engagement to resources D2.     Redeploy Captured Resources D3.     Seek Quick Results D4.    Avoid costly annihilation D5.     Priority of targets D6.     Factor Force levels D7.     Avoiding Entanglement: D8.     Conclusion: The myriad colors of strategic choices.

Part E. Fighting Tactics

E0.     Fighting Tactics: The Seven Tactics E1.     The orthodox and the unorthodox E2.     Seize and control initiative E3.     Control the enemy’s response E4.     Exploit the momentum E5.     Employ the blitz E6.     Be unpredictable E7.     The rule of deception

Part F. Conclusion

F.     The Paramount Rule of War

Chapter E0

Chapter E0

Fighting Litigation: Seven Tactics

The quarters of the way into this book, with only seven chapters left to read, it is my duty to confess that whatever you have read so far is all in the nature of homework! Whatever you have thought, decided, planned and determined has occurred before you reached the battlefield. That ‘theory’ stage has now passed. The battle is set to start. You may have evaluated your ability to fight, you may have made your five mandatory preparations, and you may have used the seven tools to finalize your optimal strategy: yet, only now are you confronted with the practical side of your theoretical construct.  How do you project your strategic power?

Let me explain this. Your preparations were all about getting set for war. Your strategic debates were all about deciding what to do. Now that the war is about the start, you need to roll out your strategy so that is has the planned impact on the field. To put it in a rudimentary way, you must now decide how to ‘conduct’ your legal war. This projection of strategic power is what battle tactics are about. To state the obvious, it is not enough to have the right war strategy: it is also necessary to use the correct battle tactics so that you are able to project your chosen war strategy.

Tactics become especially important also because of the dynamic fluid nature of war. Battle conditions change all the time, events never occur as planned, new realities emerge even as the war progresses and you will have to constantly assess and reassess where you are and what you need to do next. Events can occur which may force you to change your whole strategy. That is relatively rare but you will inevitably use different tactics depending on how events unfold as you go along. It is tactics that allow you to move seamlessly towards your goals.

For my purpose, I have reduced tactics to seven basic rules by which strategic power may be optimally projected:

  1. The orthodox and the unorthodox.
  2. Seize and control Initiative.
  3. Control the enemy’s response.
  4. Exploit the momentum.
  5. The blitz.
  6. Be Unpredictable.
  7. The rule of Deception.

Let’s take a look at them in this last section of this book.