The tapes can help avoid false litigation by showing exactly what happened during surgery.

The only compelling interest the state seemed to have in the plan was to avoid further litigation, he said.

The judge wanted to avoid lengthy litigation and millions in expenses.

"We are always trying to do whatever we can to avoid litigation," he said.

Traditionally conservative public interest law movement tended to avoid original litigation.

However, legal work tends to rise and fall with the prosperity of the country: people avoid litigation in hard times.

"The only way they avoid litigation now is they stop doing it if you call them."

The bank says it has done nothing wrong but is settling the suit to avoid litigation.

Rather, he thinks that such arrangements offer the owners of those services the ability to avoid litigation.

The desire to avoid litigation "did factor into it," he said of the company's deal with the town.