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War Room

You know your position. Do you know theirs?

The War Room isn't legal advice. It's preparation for one specific confrontation and, if you want, running it too. We take the other side apart, simulate how things will play out and build a move-by-move playbook. Then you either walk out ready, or we sit down at the table with you.

Two ways to use the War Room

Preparation, and if you want, running the confrontation

01

Preparation (session + playbook)

An intensive three-hour session on your specific confrontation, whether a negotiation, a dispute, giving evidence or a crisis within the company. We go through the papers beforehand; afterwards you get a playbook you can take into the room on your own.

What the playbook contains

  • a profile of the counterparty: motives, fears, patterns of behaviour, who actually decides;
  • a map of pressure points: what will move them and what to leave alone;
  • a decision tree for the confrontation: moves, counter-moves, exit routes and the criteria for walking away from the table;
  • the exact wording: what to say, what not to say, and the lines never to be said, especially where the meeting is being recorded;
  • drafts of the key documents to keep in your pocket (the skeleton of a settlement agreement, for instance), so that momentum at the table can be turned into a signature;
  • the economics of the confrontation: what litigation costs, what a settlement costs, and the point beyond which fighting stops paying off.
02

Running the confrontation

We run the negotiation for you, or alongside you. In practice that means:

  • control of the process: who speaks, when a number goes on the table and when silence works better; we never negotiate against ourselves;
  • synchronisation with the legal steps: filings, demand letters and evidence are timed so that they work for you at the table;
  • a recording of the meeting with the parties' consent, and a debrief after every round: what moved the number, what the other side gave away, what we'll do differently next time;
  • the position consolidated in writing after every meeting, so that a verbal shift does not evaporate.

Why it works

Four things that decide it at the table

Ammunition ready.You do not come to the table with an opinion, you come with documents. The decisive steps are timed to the day of the meeting, not to the week after it.

Information discipline.We know when openness builds credibility and when silence protects the position. Our own number goes on the table only when it is meant to.

Precision as a weapon.We read the other side's contracts more carefully than they do. Claims resting on clauses that aren't actually in the contract are nothing new to us.

A debrief after every round.We learn from each meeting faster than the counterparty, because unlike them we play it back.

How it works

Four steps from the first call to the table

01

Intro call (10–15 minutes, free)

We establish what the confrontation is about and whether the War Room will help you. If it will not, we say so straight away.

02

Papers and preparation

Contracts, correspondence, the history of the relationship. We prepare before we sit down.

03

The session (3 hours)

The counterparty, the simulation, the playbook. You leave with a plan, not with a feeling.

04

Optional: running the confrontation

We go to the table with you, and after every round we take stock and adjust the plan.

Case studies

When the War Room changed the outcome

The examples are anonymised and generalised; the outcome of any matter depends on its own circumstances and cannot be guaranteed.

Settlement talks

A receivable in the higher hundreds of thousands

The other side opened with a “final” offer worth a fifth of the claim. Ninety minutes later they offered more than double that of their own accord, without our client conceding a single crown or naming a figure.

Pre-action demand

A contractual penalty under a clause that is not in the contract

A claim for hundreds of thousands was made under a clause that doesn't exist in the contract, and at twice the rate actually agreed. It was rejected in full and the negotiation turned: it was the other side that had to come up with a counter-proposal.

Shareholder dispute

Real fears instead of legal positions

A dispute settled within three weeks, once the talks moved from legal positions to the real fear of losing control of the company.

Acquisition negotiation

A structural analysis of the deal

A negotiation in which a structural analysis of the transaction brought the price down by 18%.

Fees

A fixed fee agreed upfront

War Room preparation (papers + session + playbook)

A fixed fee agreed in advance, so you know exactly what the preparation costs, however many hours we put into it. From CZK 35,000 excl. VAT.

Running the confrontation

Charged at the strategic advisory rate in the firm’s fee schedule; for meetings away from our offices we always bill a minimum of four hours.

If you need a War Room within 48 hours, over a weekend or overnight, the express rates in the fee schedule apply. And yes, we do that too.

Part of Disputes and Crises

Completion of WorksThe contractor has walked off, the work is defective, the retention hasn't been released. What can be secured straight away, and when going to court pays off.

This service is led by

Mgr. Jan Vytřísal

Attorney, partner

Leads the firm's disputes practice and its business strategy. Nine years in radio taught Jan to say complicated things so that people actually hear them, whether in the courtroom or at the negotiating table. He combines legal analysis with an understanding of what really drives the other side.

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Let's work it out

Facing a situation where the wrong
legal move is not an option?

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