Meanwhile, the lawyers continue to bill those hours.
My best friend, an attorney in Green Bay, tells a story about a federal judge who would always have a pre-trial meeting with the parties in a civil suit. The judge would point to a statue of a cow on his desk and say to the plantiff, you've got the cow by the neck and you're pulling the cow towards you. And you, the defendant, you got the cow by the tail and pulling it towards you. Just remember, while the two of you are pulling the cow, the lawyers are milking the cow dry.