The Legal Week Litigation Forum was dominated by talk of client pressure for a new deal on costs and managing disputes. Claire Ruckin reports

When former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer last year predicted the credit crunch would lead to a flood of disputes, a wide grin spread across litigators faces. But a year on from the panicked predictions following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, it seems for most firms the upsurge in work has yet to come.