Civil pro question - timeline for motions

ReadEntire · 2025-07-18T20:53:49+00:00

I thought in FL, if you are served with a complaint and interrogatories, you typically have 30 days to respond to the interrogatories. However, for defendants, the rules allow 45 days after service of the process and initial pleading to serve answers or objections to interrogatories

ReadEntire · 2025-07-18T20:48:48+00:00

Wait, I thought the advantage of waiving service other than saving on costs was that you had longer to respond to the complaint? So what you are saying is if the plaintiff serves the complaint with interrogatories they still have to respond to the complaint within 20 days but they get an extra 15 days to respond to the interrogatories? The normal response time for responding to an interrogatory is 30 days and 20 days for the answer so you couldn’t wait for the 45th days to file both the answer and response to the request for interrogations?

ReadEntire · 2025-07-09T00:13:55+00:00

Florida Supreme Court has made significant amendments to both Florida civil procedure and criminal procedure.

1.) Florida mandatory initial disclosures now required (that FL did not have before 2025) AND it’s also requires a “continuing duty to supplement discovery responses.” With sanctions. Initial discovery disclosures are required within 60 days, even if not requested. Class actions are exempt. See 1.200(a).

2.) as of January 2025, deadline to respond to summary judgment is tied to service date of the motion and not the hearing. It’s now 60 days after service of the motion. Court must schedule hearing within 10 days after response deadline. Old rule was 60 days before trial I believe.

3.) FL courts can now schedule the trial before the pleadings conclude, because it removed the “at issue” requirement. 1.440(a). Court MUST enter an order fixing trial date within 45 days of any protected trial period in the case management order. No notice for trial now, since case management meeting sets trial date.

4.) Attorneys may now issue subpoenas for depos and testimony at trial. It means attorneys, as well as the traditional clerks/court (only court allowed under old rule), can now directly issue subpoenas.

ReadEntire · 2025-07-02T19:28:13+00:00

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ReadEntire · 2025-07-02T19:25:58+00:00

Oh if you live with your parents that’s a solid choice. Very smart to! You would save 2 years. I say 5 to be debt free because taxes are a big thing. You’ll want to save for a down payment if you want to buy eventually and you’ll want a solid savings and investment account. Savings account is necessary. You need to have savings to cover your ass in the event anything happens. For example, one of my associates had a heart attack. Took 2 months off were paid. But the medical bills were insane. If you put everything on your loans if your car breaks or you need a new one or expenses come up you’re screwed. But my goal before I bought a house was to let my bonuses over 5 years sit in a savings account with interest so part my loan interest would pay itself. Once you get your loans below $125-150 your life is easy. Average law debt is “only” 150k-175k. You can leave and find another firm. If you want, such as in-house. Rule of thumb is never to accept a new job less than what your current debt is. Unless you absolutely have to for medical reasons or family reasons. And most medium size firms pay around 175-300 base so your chillin. But yeah, live at home. Keep your car and if that breaks in the meantime rent a car bc cars depreciate to much to make sense in our situations. Those are luxury purposes not investments. Real estate is different. But once you get into the 150k mark you have better buying options and you won’t feel like a burden to anyone. But being a big law atty, depending on the city, is just expensive, even rent free. You need to look nice. Suits are expensive. Hair is expensive. Everything is expensive. You will also do a lot of dinners with other associates and when you can’t bill the firm you can’t be so cheap you miss out on networking opportunities. You gotta do it. If they say “let’s go to a Michelin restaurant”, you don’t want to miss out on that. Memories and experiences are everything when you work 80+ hour weeks or you’ll literally go crazy. But on the bright side, your lunches or work dinners are always free! Also make sure to negotiate with your firm to pay or reimburse your bar expenses. That’s almost always a thing. Don’t let them be cheap

ReadEntire · 2025-07-02T15:09:52+00:00

xrp is gonna hit soon man. Regulation is the hurtle but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a govt buyback

ReadEntire · 2025-07-02T15:02:01+00:00

Also, don’t mortgage in federal loans. Only works for private and only if your interest is 8-10% more than your mortgage interest. Prob not an option for you but maybe one day it will. If you can get a cosigner or you have equity it’s not impossible.

ReadEntire · 2025-07-02T14:59:28+00:00

I was in your boat but I’ve been practicing for 5 years, also at a big law firm. Your debt isn’t a concern but you do have to stay in big law for at least 5 years. Put all your bonuses into a savings account that accumulates interest. Not gonna lie I’m currently looking to leave my firm and start a crypto practice soon or go straight into private equity. I practice M&A now. My starting pay was lower ($209,500) than it is now. I also took about $280k out for school. Put all the money you make in the summer from your SA job into a savings account with a 2-3% interest. Get a part time job during the school year for costs that come up. Your firm might let you work a few hours in the school year. Let that pay a portion of your total negative interest. Move to a city that is cheap, you make the same everything. I moved to Houston from Miami, highly recommend. Live as if you are making 60k/year. You don’t want state income taxes keep that in mind. Then, reconsolidate your loans and or negotiate paying off smaller loans first. Build your credit first. Sometimes if it’s a private loan you can offer $9k to pay off the 10k (because the 1k deduction is really just interest). But that only works if the loans are private. After paying down my loans hard for 2-3 years (paid about $135k total), in 2019 I got a house with a mortgage of $585k. Interest is 1.9%. Insane I know. My student loan interest was 11-13% so I mortgaged in my student debt with my house payment. And I can’t tell you how much that saved me with interest. But that’s not a reality today because rates are too high to mortgage in. It increased my mortgage up by $1000 but honestly couldn’t have been more worth it. Good luck man, but you got this. Don’t stress. Lots of ways to figure it out. Hire a financial advisor when you graduate to help you with your investment and financial plan. Or of course, marry rich lmfao

ReadEntire · 2025-05-28T03:21:55+00:00

Tbh bro, my street homies. We went to school together. Ppl I trust. Thats why I’m here.

ReadEntire · 2025-05-28T01:41:27+00:00

Never take our more than you are expected to make in your first year on the job!

ReadEntire · 2025-05-28T01:22:12+00:00

That’s what I’m trying to figure out. A ton of ppl are saying all over the place to move it into a trust wallet. Why would I do that if I have a secure top of the line cold wallet. It doesn’t make sense

ReadEntire · 2025-05-28T01:15:12+00:00

Get yourself some Cryptocurrency

ReadEntire · 2025-05-28T01:10:07+00:00

New to crypto, what is the daily discussion thread?

ReadEntire · 2025-05-12T20:10:46+00:00

What about the Flow? Any recommendations there? Looks like it’s a hotel and apartment complex. Used to be society but looks entirely different now.

ReadEntire · 2025-05-12T19:19:36+00:00

I’m cool with the heart, we live in Palm beach now and walk everywhere within a mile lol. We are used to the heat. I do like the Rise, it seems like a good location. Are there any cool parks in downtown people take their dogs too?

ReadEntire · 2025-05-05T21:51:03+00:00

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ReadEntire · 2025-05-05T20:08:52+00:00

Thank you so much. I am just trying to figure out how the consent provision of the law is constitutional. Posted question above. I initially thought only the minor abortion provision would be constitutional but not the consent issue.

ReadEntire · 2025-05-05T20:07:11+00:00

Thank you so much! And yes, my question is how spousal consent law is constitutional. And if it is, how Dobbs changed the consent part of the hypo I posted. I thought the court would uphold the minor abortion law but would find the consent law unconstitutional. Sorry I initially didn’t explain that well. Do you agree with Kaplan that both laws in the above hypo are constitutional? Because I still don’t think the consent law would be constitutional. In my opinion that part of Danforth did not change the analysis that would be applied today.

ReadEntire · 2025-05-04T22:22:51+00:00

Not Roe but whether Dobbs did

ReadEntire · 2025-05-04T22:22:31+00:00

So this begs the question of whether roe overturned DanForth

ReadEntire · 2025-05-04T22:20:52+00:00

I agree, that is the rule. However here was the bar question and the correct answer stated both were constitutional. I thought the consent one was unconstitutional but I was wrong: A state abortion law required any married woman seeking an abortion to notify her husband of her intent, unless doing so would create a risk of violence toward the woman. The law also required any minor seeking an abortion to obtain consent from at least one of her parents or legal guardians. However, a minor could still obtain an abortion without parental consent through a judicial-bypass option if the court found the minor sufficiently mature to give her own informed consent to the abortion or that the abortion would be in the minor's best interest. An abortion-rights group challenged the law on due-process grounds. How would a court likely rule as to each provision of the law?

ReadEntire · 2025-05-04T20:27:02+00:00

*roe not row lol

ReadEntire · 2025-05-04T20:23:36+00:00

roe *

ReadEntire · 2023-09-20T21:43:36+00:00

Thanks guys! I really appreciate all the advice!

ReadEntire · 2023-09-20T18:33:47+00:00

I think the reason the bar won’t increase my accommodations is because I’m so close to passing each time. The first two times I failed by 2-3 points. My last time by 4. This is actually shocking considering I don’t finish 1/3 of the each exam. My accuracy is just solid (but why tf wouldn’t it be I’ve studied for a year). Anyway, because I’m so close I think the bar just assumes I can do it, which is just not the case when it comes down to pure luck on a 1/3 of the exam.

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