Once More Into the Breach



I spent hours tonight with opposing counsel hammering out our pretrial order. Unlike criminal trials, the parties to civil litigation have to agree precisely over what issues are going to be litigated, what witnesses will be called, what in general they will testify to, and what evidence will be used. Basically, there are no surprises in a civil trial (on ocymoron if there ever was one). I have nowlearned it takes a considerable period of time to decided on all these things.



I also have to write a devotional for tommorrow night's class at some point, and I have no clue what I am going to say. After the pretrial conference tommorrow morning, I'll have a chance to throw something together. Hopefully. *Sigh.*