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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Next to none in private practice. Almost everything settles. Stuff that doesn't takes years to get to court or a hearing. In the rare occasion that it does get there, there are no "gotcha" moments. There's good transcript and bad transcript but no one goes "aha, I've won". It's more like gradually building a list of admissions and facts in evidence over the course of the hearing (which can last for weeks), hopefully in a way that the witness doesn't even clue into the importance of what you're doing.
The only similarity with TV is that they're both scripted - we know what our witnesses are going to say before we ask the question because we've done prep sessions with them (unless they screw up). We know what the other side's witnesses are going to say because we either have transcript of them saying it in discovery (which is the Canadian version of a deposition) or a document to hold them to, like an email where they say what we want the Court to hear them saying. There are rarely any siginificant surprises.
EDIT: This relates to my practice. I assume people who are doing files where the parties are individuals have a lot more chaos to deal with. I would never do family law, for example, for that reason among others.
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Okay, cool. Thanks.
EDIT: NM on the rest. Too off topic.