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Litigation Notes

How was the trial? Nice of you to ask. At the start of the day, the judge told us to head into the jury room for 15 minutes to try and settle it. Six hours later, we did. Was it a good settlement? Well, both sides hated it so, as the old cliche goes, it must have been a good settlement. If I was mediating, I would have been pleased but today I was the trial lawyer ready to roll and unless we got a steal of a deal on settlement, it would have been and was disappointing. Settling on the courthouse steps gives you all the work of trial and none of the fun. However, the client buys certainty and it happens.