Thinking about the news and also the one time I had to make a deposition in an intellectual property case.
Through the discovery process, the plaintiff had our calendars. They combed through and found one meeting they decided was the important one. I have no idea what criteria they used to select it. And then their lawyer quizzes me for 20 minutes about this meeting which as far as I was concerned was just one random meeting out of a hundred and about which I had no recollection.
"No I don't remember this meeting." "No, I don't know if X attended." "I don't know if Y attended." "I don't know if Z attended." "Even though I don't remember, I have no reason to believe X didn't attend if they were listed as an attendee." "I have no reason to believe Y didn't attend." ...
What a ridiculous time and energy wasting process!
BTW After answering that many questions about something I didn't remember I started building an imaginary picture of it in my head. It's a bit unnerving because that image is stronger than any memory I might have had about the meeting itself. It's hard to be a witness about something even just a couple of years earlier.
