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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I despise profs who are sticklers for student deadlines. It’s cruel and completely unnecessary.

You know who misses all the deadlines at work and who never gets fired? Tenured profs. [/quote]

You know who misses deadlines at work and gets fired? Lawyers. As a law professor, I enforce deadlines, for the very simple reason that courts enforce them. I'm not trying to train a bunch of people who get sanctioned. [/quote]

That’s only part of the picture — deadlines are constantly moved/renegotiated in the course of litigation and, in some types of practice, parties have a lot of input re the initial scheduling. And the official/filing deadline may not be the urgent one (e.g. need client sign-off and time to revise if necessary).  It’s like lots of complex jobs where you have to constantly make judgments re which deadlines matter most (or how) and when you need to recognize/acknowledge that you’re in a situation where you need to ask for more time or more help.[/quote]

Thank you for educating me on how that works. As a professor who frequently serves as an expert in cases and argues cases, I was totally unaware of how things actually worked in litigation.  :roll: The reality is that law school doesn't involve as many submissions as litigation involves. Of course, some submissions will be renegotiated, either with the judge or co-counsel or both. To the extent law school encompasses these sorts of submissions, flexibility is often part of the deal. However, there are some deadlines that are simply firm, and deviation from those deadlines gets you in trouble, period. The few assignments in law school tend to be more like the latter required submissions. But you know this already.  :roll:  [/quote]

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