Kirkland retains FTI before the complaint is filed. FTI’s war room is running scenario analysis on your case before you have a client list. By the time you file, the defense narrative is built, the third parties are positioned, and the jury pool research is complete. You are filing into an ambush you cannot see.
In 1996, VIS was engaged by counsel representing workers at 70 nuclear contractor sites before a single complaint was filed. The pre-filing intelligence brief identified the federal agency’s communications strategy, its third-party science allies, and its narrative architecture. Counsel filed with a counter-narrative already built. The cases resolved without the public record ever being controlled by the defense.
Before you file, VIS builds a complete intelligence picture of the opposition’s communications posture — which defense communications firms have been retained, what narrative they are preparing, which third parties they are positioning, and what the digital record currently looks like for your case.