A Calderbank offer of approximately 45% of the trial judgment amount is not necessarily unreasonable to reject where the litigation is very complex with multiple competing aspects. The rule of thumb for jointly represented parties (proportionate share of common costs) is a convenient starting point but must be adjusted for the relative significance of issues, not merely bare statistics of issues won and lost.
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