A few months ago, opposing counsel e-filed discovery requests in one of my New York cases. Why? I still don't know. Discovery requests are exchanged between the lawyers. The judge doesn't need them. Yet someone prepared them for filing, someone uploaded them, and everyone received another docket notification. It was a tiny thing. But it made me think about how easily legal work creates more legal work. I saw a much larger version recently in a multimillion-dollar business sal
