Editorials
Letter from the Editor
Jerri Nims, Editor-in-Chief
Welcome to The
Docket, the student-run newspaper of Georgia State University College of Law!
The 2002-2003 school year marks many significant events for both the school as a
whole as well as The Docket's development into an engaging and analytical
"voice" of the law school community...
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Strategies Civ Pro Doesn’t Teach You
Leslie Spornberger Jones, Managing
Editor
No doubt about it,
Civil Procedure teaches you a lot of rules. From serving defendants to motions
practice to handling discovery, Civ Pro is all about what rules apply in
specific situations. This should come as no surprise to anyone here at the
College of Law, since all of us have had our fair share (and, in some cases, our
fill) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Naturally all of these rules are helpful, of course, especially for someone like
me who came to law school specifically to pursue a career as a trial lawyer,
because the rules are best used to strategize in litigation. But as I sat in Civ
Pro last year, knowing that the class was important and a framework for future
practice, my mind often began to wander...
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