Hamble Setzhammer:
to have them decide on the date of second trial that maybe the offer of a year ago actually was indeed the right resolution before the thousands of dollars and year of court time was wasted.
OH MY GOD YES!!! One of the MOST frustrating things about this is that we could have settled this case (and by this, I mean two, as it is a coverage action combined with a suit against the thieves themselves) a year and a half ago if the client had been willing to enter discussions in the range we're now at. In the interim, we've spent a boatload of money litigating, had our asses handed to us by a judge who has issued a series of rulings that, though reversible error can't be reversed until we get to the appellate court after even more boatloads of money, and NOW the client thinks, "Huh. Maybe I should just get what I can get, and cut my losses."
I mean, REALLY? For REALS?!?
Did I mention (I can't remember) -- the lawnmower baffle case has settled; we're just dickering about the language of the release now.
I could bore everybody even more with an account of the trial exhibit list I'm culling down and how we intend to get records into evidence under various exceptions to the hearsay rule. I mean, this stuff actually does interest me, but it's dry as dust to other people, and I think the spouse is tired of listening to me grouse about it.