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[Music] now we're going to discuss some of the cons although we've probably discussed a lot of them while hitting on the pros of why you wouldn't want to be in federal court we had venue down as both a pro and a con but I think we we've beaten the proverbial horse on on the venue choice issue the joint pretrial order we've we've discussed it very briefly but what that is is a document at the end of Discovery that's jointly prepared and then so ordered by the judge or the magistrate and it it essentially lays out all the pertinent issues for trial it includes witnesses it includes deposition testimony that you're going to be using at trial it includes jury charges it includes kind of the kitchen sink about your trial it talks about your experts it it is really laying out your trial before you try the case it's a lot of work and it's work that you're going to need to do at a state court but you're going to do it closer to trial in federal court you're going to do it essentially as discov