The deadline for receipt of nominations is July 3, 2000. The Missouri Bar, P.O. Box 119, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0119. The eve of trial. All parties work late into the night feverishly trying to reach a dollar figure that will allow them to avoid the unknowns of trial. The coffee flows, the jackets come off, the eyes redden.
Phone lines blink and stomachs churn.
Attorneys whisper and clients fret. Then the fax arrives. As the paper streams out of the fax machine, the attorney sees the dollar figure, but it has now become immersed in a sea of words. Clause after clause emerges from the fax machine. That is, after all, a good question.