Ninety Days to Close Discovery: A Production Calendar for the Rocket Docket
In the Eastern District of Virginia the schedule does not move. Here is the calendar, worked backward from the cutoff. In most federal districts a vendor running a week late is an inconvenience. In the Eastern District of Virginia a week is a meaningful fraction of the entire discovery period. The scheduling order typically issues […]
Litigation Support Eastern District of Virginia Timelines
The reputation is about speed. The local rules are about something more useful: they remove the tool every litigator reaches for when a schedule gets tight. Most of what is written about the Eastern District of Virginia describes how fast it is. That is true and it is not actionable. What is actionable is what […]
Every Filing Has Two Versions. Keep Them Consistent.
Confidential and public versions are a production discipline, and the place 337 productions most often come apart. Nearly every substantive filing in a Section 337 investigation exists twice: a confidential version and a public version with the business information removed. Both are filed electronically through EDIS, on a schedule that leaves no time to rebuild […]