How long did your longest matter last? I imagine litigators take the cake here but curious about deals as well.

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10+ years.

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Large damages but state court with lots of interlocutory appeals, stays, LOTS of discovery, lots of experts, etc.

I have an MDL from 2006 that’s still kicking in some ways.

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I’m a 7th year litigator and for my entire career I’ve been on a case that started 12 years ago, and there’s even a predecessor case that dates back another 5-6 years.

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I was on an M&A deal that was 1.5 years as the parties were also litigating against one another.

The food bill was over $800K. Lots of protracted in-person meetings with big catering.

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One of the matters I was on is going on 14 years (I started like 9 years in)

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Deals - like close to a year (our typical timeframe in my industry is 3-4 weeks).

However it depends how you measure. I do finance so there’s definitely deals where I close the financing, then work on the syndication, then have occasional asset management work over the next 3 years, then work on a refinance of the same asset, then more syndication, then more asset management, then work on the payoff/release. So if you measure that way, it lasted 5+ years, but the active closing portion was only 1-2 months.

This deal I’m on just hit month 4 and still ongoing

Over a year for a client to review a patent application, which is really rare.

On the other hand an active patent family can go on for 10+ years

Large international corporate reorganizations (spin-offs, carve-outs). Some of them take 2+ years and you bill daily to them.

23 years! This was the A-12 litigation between Boeing, General Dynamics, and the Government.

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