This course is a combination of civil procedure, employment law, and pretrial practice. It uses key filings in the Lively v. Wayfarer and Wallace v. Lively suits, together with the federal procedural rules and case law, to study pleadings, motions to dismiss, written discovery, oral depositions, experts, motions for sanctions, summary judgment, preliminary trial preparation, and settlement. It also uses a hypothetical case for written and oral exercises on the major stages of litigation. There will be a multi-component final project as a summative assessment.