Hit 47 pages of discovery and something finally clicked

I was drowning in a breach of contract case, just printing and tabbing like a robot. Then I hit page 47 and noticed the other side's timeline had a two week gap that matched a repair invoice I flagged earlier. It hit me that discovery isn't about volume, it's about finding where the story breaks. I ended up settling for $8,500 because that gap made their whole case wobble. Has anyone else ever had a number like that just flip a switch mid-case?

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avery_roberts671mo ago

Man, that’s exactly how it goes sometimes! I had a similar thing happen where I found a missing signature on a change order that nobody caught, and suddenly the other side’s whole argument about “scope creep” fell apart. For me, the trick is to stop reading everything front to back and start looking for the pauses, the spots where their paperwork just gets weird or quiet. Those gaps are almost always where they’re hoping you won't look, and once you poke at them, the case gets a lot easier to talk settlement. You did the right thing by chasing that invoice, that’s the kind of detail that wins you the war even when you don't go to trial.

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