Of course, in practice, whenever you file a motion to suspend (or motion for continuance or motion for time), and if you’re new, your senior partner will lecture you: don’t presume the court will grant it, until granted, you have to show up . Lecture lecture.
In practice however, in ordinary cases (that is, in ordinary cases, not in so-callled “high profile” cases) you usually give opposing counsel paňero/ paňero/ the courtesy of an advanced copy of your motion for continuance and give a friendly phone call – in real life and in ordinary cases, lawyers and opposing counsels become friends in the course of the trial. Then you inform the clerk of court in advance that you and opposing counsel have spoken of other trial dates etc. etc. , the clerk of court will confirm with opposing counsel, etc. etc. it makes the workings of the court more efficient when you prepare for contingencies before the hearing, the clerk of court can accommodate more cases in the calendar, and it makes the job of the judge less stressful …
Trade secrets. that’s in ordinary cases; in so-called “high profile” cases, sometimes, the lawyers get on each others nerves; for some reason, lawyers get too stressed out when millions and millions of people are watching their every move and thousands of people want to talk to them and they need to talk, study, read, write, prep, meet up, thousands of times endlessly .
