Thanks so much for your post here! I spent 5ish years as a litigator and couldn’t agree more with this. As an additional bit of context for non-lawyers, how discovery works in a large civil trial, from someone who used to do it:
You gather an ocean of potentially relevant documents from a wide range of sources
You spend a ton of time sifting through them looking for quotes that, at least if taken out of context, might support a point you want to make
You gather up all these potentially useful materials and decide what story you want to tell with them
Like a bird building a nest at a landfill, it’s hard to know what throwaway comment a lawyer might make something out of.
Thanks so much for your post here! I spent 5ish years as a litigator and couldn’t agree more with this. As an additional bit of context for non-lawyers, how discovery works in a large civil trial, from someone who used to do it:
You gather an ocean of potentially relevant documents from a wide range of sources
You spend a ton of time sifting through them looking for quotes that, at least if taken out of context, might support a point you want to make
You gather up all these potentially useful materials and decide what story you want to tell with them
Like a bird building a nest at a landfill, it’s hard to know what throwaway comment a lawyer might make something out of.