About all I got out of this was he expects them to settle and an appeal can be expected for any reason under the sun; and an answer to a question I posted to the board several weeks back pertaining to length of these proceedings which no one answered till this.

ronran - ''In any event, no client wants to throw good money after bad, and the risks must continue to be assessed as the trial date approaches --- due to the need for final, intense trial preparation, the most expensive time frame for a case is usually the last 30 - 60 days for one of major complexity, and usually the last 15 - 30 days for those of lesser complexity. ''

So, your end-of-month could be right.

Puts us in right about in line for the 10K update to, right.

fwiw

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