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The mustard is where?!?!

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hey Reader,

Sandwiches are my love language...

acts of kindness and Jersey Mike’s.

I got a #14 on wheat. Hold the “Mike’s way.”
The spices are great but the soggy bread—not my thing.

So I asked for mayo and mustard.

Mayo was easy.
Mustard was another story…

The sandwich technician picked up the top half of my sandwich, walked into the back room, opened a drawer, grabbed the mustard, put it back in the drawer, walked back out, and finished making my veggie on wheat.

Mustard— literally in the next room!

Twenty feet there.
Twenty feet back.

1st question: Is mustard such a rare ask that it doesn’t need to be an arms length away?

2nd question: How many people have quietly lowered their sandwich standards because the mustard is in Nebraska?

What system have you lived with because it’s just what you’re used to—even though you don’t have a minute to spare?

  • Drafting deposition chapters after hours.
  • Preparing witnesses between everything else on your plate.
  • Organizing thousands of pages of records into something a fact-finder can actually follow.
  • Chasing admissions during the deposition instead of designing them beforehand.

Inefficient systems don't just waste your time.
They make it harder to accomplish what you actually need.

That means we write the deposition and structure the chapters so the testimony builds the way your case needs it to.

You walk in and execute it.
No 40-foot round trip detour.

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Your with-in-reach trial consultants,

P.S. I have zero mustard regrets.

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