Sunday, October 26, 2008

I Love the Law

I have a trial that starts at nine in the morning. I just got an Email from the opposing counsel attaching a proposed Amended Pre-trial Order, the document that controls what issues will be tried, that she proposes we file in the morning. Said opposing counsel just figured out that there were several claims of her client that weren’t included in the current Order and suggested that we file the “cleaned up” amendment tomorrow. I declined. Wish me luck.

9 comments:

Hedy said...

Best wishes tomorrow.

Keith said...

Good luck, now go getem'

Debo Blue said...

Good luck. Hope you get some sleep too:0

Posol'stvo the Medved said...

Yes. Best wishes.

Now, can you tell that story again in english? As I have no clue what any of those legalese nouns are. Hence, I have no idea if I am correct in assuming that what she was asking for was a bit like one of my customers telling me two days before launch about a requirement that should have been in the specifications months earlier.

The Curmudgeon said...

Sounds like you might have a productive settlement conference before you ever get to trial....

Dave said...

Non-legalize? OK, prior to trial, the parties draft a document that is submitted to the judge who approves it. It freezes the issues to be tried. The other side left out two of their claims which are therefore not to be tried. Oops.

Curmudgeon, no settlement conference.

Trial continues tomorrow.

Unknown said...

I believe my legales response to opposing counsel would be "Pound sand".

Unknown said...

So how did it go?

fermicat said...

A last minute change sounds like the kind of thing that should be rejected.