LaVern A Pritchard

LaVern A. Pritchard is a practicing attorney and web consultant offering individualized services and solutions to clients' increasingly challenging legal, management, technology and marketing problems. Mr. Pritchard provides legal, legal management consulting, and mediation services through the Law Office of LaVern A. Pritchard. He provides web pla... nning, architecture, development, marketing, and related consulting services through Pritchard Law Webs. Mr. Pritchard has made presentations to inside and outside counsel and other audiences on a wide variety of legal quality, cost-effectiveness, professional liability and practice innovation topics, including presentations on intranets, extranets, and public legal web sites, attorneys and the Internet, litigation risk and cost-effectiveness assessment, effective inside-outside counsel relations, litigation planning and budgeting, use of imaging technology in document intensive cases, and legal malpractice avoidance. Before commencing his own private law practice and forming Pritchard Law Webs, Mr. Pritchard founded and was the member in charge of the Minneapolis office of Clark Hill P.L.C., a firm of more than one hundred attorneys. A member of the litigation department, he founded the firm's Cyberspace Commerce and Disputes practice area, served on the firm's technology committee, and served as editor of the firm's public web site. At Clark Hill, Mr. Pritchard principally served as lead outside counsel to the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on failed savings and loan director and officer and professional liability litigation in the Midwest. Cases that Mr. Pritchard directed as outside counsel produced more than $36 million in voluntary settlements. Before joining Clark Hill, Mr. Pritchard founded and served as Section Chief of the Resolution Trust Corporation Professional Liability Section in Minneapolis, supervising professional liability investigations and litigation arising out of failed savings and loan associations ...Read More