I’m in lit and I am naturally bad at the ticky-tacky procedural stuff whenever a gray area comes up and we need to rely on a hypertechnical argument to preserve a defense. Is anyone else like this? Does it get better? Should I find solace in the fact that even trial courts get confused by this stuff as evidenced by appellate court rulings? The statutory scheme concerning certain issues can feel ambiguous…

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Unless you’re rain man and can remember the entire code of civil procedure, checklists are clutch.

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This stuff is just hard. You need to sketch it out, use checklists, make spreadsheets. One thing very helpful for me is seeing what other people did in procedural history of cases--often will reveal some silly oversight on my part or clarify something that should have been obvious but was confusing TF out of me.

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I just came here to say I really like the phrase “ticky tacky.”

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Do you have an example?

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