The war rooms at the Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo

The whole Madonna Inn experience was incredible!
–P.T., Syracuse, NY

As my firm knew, post-Labor Day would be busy, and so many of the posts you’ve seen lately are quickies, re-runs, re-hashes or longer stuff we prepared over the summer anticipating all this. Holden “NantucketBoy” Oliver* isn’t as busy, and is nicely holding down the blog fort. So why am I doing this one in real time on the eve of trial? Because we are now preparing to start a trial that gives lawsuits–never mind the details–a bad name in their often utter and profound anti-business wastefulness. So my like-minded lawyer in-house client