I’m an associate coming up on my one-year anniversary of being an attorney. It’s starting to make sense why my partners leave most of the discovery to me. Pretty tedious stuff.
Well eventually there’s a mediation or trial or MSJ and you can close the book on discovery for the one case. I more and more hate written discover and just prefer to jump to depositions of corpsorate reps to get the infor
Even depos are nonsense. You spend hours getting the witness to say what everyone in the room knows happened but he/she’s sitting there with the same nonsensical answers that you hear time and time again in depos. The general problem with litigation is you spend most of your time fighting about “what happened,” when the basic facts (did you speak with this person, what did you say, etc) should be easy to establish. Obviously people lie and hide the facts but I’d soooo much rather fight about who’s right based on a set of facts than fighting about that set of facts. Litigation is basically paying people to hide the ball.
Do most Accenture MDs max out the 30% contribution to the VEIP? How do you deal with cash flow in the first two years before it vests, given it takes a bite out of your post tax earnings?
Pro
And 99% of the discovery you’re fighting about will never matter at trial, if one ever happens.
Pro
Gotta rack up those hours. Thank god for the million unnecessary objections.
This is why I just left litigation.
Trusts and estates!
Calling and then sending letters. And then granting your “final” extension, hoping for dear life that you won’t have to file a motion to compel
So true!!! “I swear this time I’m actually filing a motion to compel”
Rising Star
In big litigation, it can certainly feel that way.
BC of this people can go years, 5, 6 not realizing what lawyering actually is, especially in transactional
I’m an associate coming up on my one-year anniversary of being an attorney. It’s starting to make sense why my partners leave most of the discovery to me. Pretty tedious stuff.
Well eventually there’s a mediation or trial or MSJ and you can close the book on discovery for the one case. I more and more hate written discover and just prefer to jump to depositions of corpsorate reps to get the infor
Pro
Even depos are nonsense. You spend hours getting the witness to say what everyone in the room knows happened but he/she’s sitting there with the same nonsensical answers that you hear time and time again in depos. The general problem with litigation is you spend most of your time fighting about “what happened,” when the basic facts (did you speak with this person, what did you say, etc) should be easy to establish. Obviously people lie and hide the facts but I’d soooo much rather fight about who’s right based on a set of facts than fighting about that set of facts. Litigation is basically paying people to hide the ball.
So, when can I expect to get that discovery you owe me?
I promise I’m working on it!!! 😂😭
So this is what I’m paying outside counsel to do???
Yes