A Guide To Conducting Discovery

A Guide To Conducting Discovery

Discovery is the part of litigation everyone claims to hate, until they lose a case because of it. Young lawyers will tell you discovery is “paperwork.” Senior lawyers will sigh and call it “a grind.” Judges will roll their eyes and treat it like an administrative nuisance that keeps them from the real work. That attitude is exactly why discovery wins cases. Not at trial. Not at the dispositive motion hearing. Not on some dramatic cross-examinat…