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 In the last five
years, Michael Freeborn has
published dozens of articles or columns, and has given numerous
presentations at professional gatherings.
His work has appeared in the Illinois Bar Journal, and The Docket
published by the American Corporate Counsel Association.
He is a regular contributor to the monthly column for trial lawyers entitled
"Civil Litigation FlashPoints," published on the website
of the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
He has delivered annual lectures on "Effective Cross Examination" at
the Chicago Bar Association, and has spoken at annual meetings of the American
Corporate Counsel Association.
A partial bibliography
is available, and we describe below a few of the more thought-provoking examples.
(If you would like reprints, or would like to further discuss the topics
covered, feel free to email us.)
NEW! Michael
has posted his Tutorial on Decision
Trees for Lawyers. If you are wrestling with hard decisions -- such as whether
to litigate or settle, whether to pursue a particular litigation strategy or
save the expense, wondering how much you should be willing to spend on the
strategy -- see how the use of Influence Diagrams and Decision Trees can help
you make better decisions!
 | Are you an employer having trouble
retaining your best people? Are your competitors trying to seduce them
away, after you've spent big money training them? Are you concerned that
traditional non-competition agreements may be ineffective or too expensive to
enforce? Then perhaps you need to consider the "Fleischman
Strategy", described in Michael's article entitled How
You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?
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| Are
you up for a pop quiz on sex in the workplace? Or more specifically, on
sexual harassment in the workplace. There's an important difference, which
apparently some people don't recognize. But even those who do recognize
the difference may have some trouble with the quiz, which addresses some
important recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. If you want to give
it a shot, see Michael's Pop Quiz on Sex in the
Workplace.
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| If all of our attorney-client
relationships were ideal, we would have no need of such things as litigation
budgeting. The ideal client would have no fear of the unknown, and feel no
need to control the activity -- and thus expense -- of the lawyer. The
client would be confident that the lawyer, an ideal lawyer, is thoroughly
competent and unlikely to waste any effort on the way to a prompt and efficient
disposition of the case. But since nothing is ever ideal, consider
Michael's article entitled Litigation
Budgeting And The Tower Of Babel.
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| In addition to
techniques like budgeting, the high cost of litigation can be further limited by
prudent use of alternative dispute resolution. In his short article on
arbitration clauses, especially in typical construction contracts, Michael
summarizes the principal advantages and disadvantages. Read it, if you are
wondering about Arbitration -- Is It Right For You?
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