After more than twenty years at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, the world’s largest all-business-litigation firm, partner Diane Cafferata has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of complex commercial litigations. As a Fellow of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation and with an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Diane is known for developing and executing creative strategies that get her clients excellent litigation results even in the most challenging cases.

An important part of Diane’s winning approach has been leveraging all of her clients’ resources more effectively. Having clients more meaningfully engaged enables the whole team to work at a higher level, getting better results with less stress. Diane wrote this book to make the basics of the U.S. litigation process more accessible to both domestic and foreign businesspeople.

Diane has received several national and regional litigation awards and has worked on many of the biggest and most prestigious litigations over the last ten years.  When she isn’t advocating for her clients, she enjoys racing cars, cooking, and writing.