Partly. The corporate evidence is prepared once, so that portion is shared. The individual work — interviews, evidence gathering, and drafting a distinct knowledge account — does not compress, and the internal time cost of pulling records for several people is often underestimated. Budget the shared and individual portions separately.
Price the internal effort too
The largest hidden cost in a group is the time of the engineers and managers who must find documents and sit for interviews while doing their normal jobs. Estimate that before committing to a filing date. Ask counsel for a per-person scope alongside the shared scope, and ask what happens if the business decides mid-project to withdraw one name from the group.
Budget the shared and individual portions separately, since the corporate evidence is prepared once while interviews, evidence gathering, and drafting a distinct knowledge account do not compress with numbers. The largest hidden cost is the time of engineers and managers who must find documents and sit for interviews while doing their normal jobs, and that cost should be estimated before any filing date is committed to. Ask counsel for a per-person scope alongside the shared scope, and ask what happens if the business decides mid-project to withdraw one name, because groups change composition more often than anyone plans for.
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