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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I've gone through it. Two Christmases ago, I was working on one deal invloving parties in California, NY, and London while simultaneously working on a second deal invloving parties in California, NY, London, Amsterdam, and Belgium. Each deal needed to close by 12/31 to avoid certain tax issues, both in the foreign countries and the US, and both deals needed to close by 12/31 because the public companies involved wanted to be able to announce the deal with their quarterly filings.
I not only worked on Christmas, but actually never left my office from 12/24 until sometime early in the morning New Years Day. I showered there, I ate there, I slept there...my secretary made an emergency run to my house to drop off my laundry and pick up clean clothes. I only saw my husband if he came by bearing food.
It was unpleasant.
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Like clockwork, opposing counsel will file flurries of motions just before each holiday, as though I'm too stupid to just call the clerk and request an extension to respond. To date, no judge has denied my request. I pushed a trial around for about a year recently. The way to do it is to appeal to the Judge's laziness. If you give a judge even a hint the case may settle in the interim, or that he'll somehow not have to decide a complex motion for summary judgment, you can move court dates all over the goddamned place.
