Early on, I was taught the importance of starting pleadings and motions with a smashing prefatory. A prefatory’s function is simple and elegant—to show in one, two, or more paragraphs, that your opponent is downright wrong. Preferably, it should bite—hard.
So, there.
I’ve been drafting a reply for three days already. Due to the avalanche of other equally important work, the reply was constantly demoted to a lower position in my to-do list.
After finishing my first draft, I launched Lex Libris and searched for jurisprudence to substantiate the prefatory I just made. Unfortunately, nothing came up.
Contrary to the principles of efficient time management for law office workers (okay, I just made that up), I spent two hours searching for the perfect biting quotation that I’ll use to conclude the prefatory. Just when I found the perfect concluding remark, I was told that we won’t be filing the reply anymore.
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