With the high cost of litigation, an important aspect of the services of group professionals is to evaluate whether litigation can be avoided by solving or advising in respect of litigious issues early and pre-emptively. However where litigation cannot be avoided, group professionals pursue litigation across all areas of the law tenaciously and efficiently for resolution of the dispute, and where required involve specialists from other service areas to assist with litigation. Group professionals are geared to provide extensive general and specialist litigation services to clients. Such services include:

• Case management services to clients in litigious matters for Magistrate Court, High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court, as well as support for other formal tribunals and forums
• All aspects of commercial litigation
• Settlement negotiations
• Insolvency and rehabilitation applications
• Urgent applications
• Legal opinions
• Alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration)
• Tax related litigation
• Intellectual property related litigation
• Matrimonial litigation
• Medical malpractice
• Property
• Banking and finance litigation
• Contract litigation
• Construction litigation
• Constitutional, public and administrative law advice and litigation
• General litigation
• All aspects of defended litigation arising from debt recovery