In short, does anyone know where I could find a litigation timeline designed more so for law students taking a civ pro class? Those which I have found are more descriptive without explicitly listing which rules belong in which part of the timeline with accommodations for those rules relevant to multiple places throughout the course of litigation. Note, I understand the rules are listed in the FRCP book chronologically as they're relevant to the litigation process; however, some rules appearing much later in the litigation timeline refer to other rules found earlier in the timeline, the relationship between 26(f) and 16 for example:
26(f) takes place under "Depositions and Discovery," and 16 takes place under "Pleadings and Motions," where the 26(f) conference must take place "at least 21 days before a scheduling conference is to be held or a scheduling order is due under Rule 16(b)." So, I'm looking for a timeline that takes the relationship between two distant rules, among others carrying the same dependency relationship, and accounts for those relationships in a horizontal or vertical timeline diagram.
To give a rough visual, heres what I'm usually finding:
(1) "Pleading Phase"
-- "P" files complaint;
"D" answers or moves to dismiss.
(2) "Discovery Phase"
-- Parties Investigate facts,
take discovery, file and argue motions
etc...
But here's somewhat what I'm looking for:
(1) "Pleading Phase"
-- "P" files complaint;
"D" answers or moves to dismiss.
(1.a) "Rules Arising Under Pleading Phase"
-- Rules 7, 8, 9...16, etc.
(1.b) "Dependency Maps and Descriptions"
-- Rule 16 <> Rule 26(f)
-- "Explaining the Dependency Relationship"
-- 26(f) conference must occur at least 21
days before scheduling conference is to
be held or a scheduling order is due under
Rule 16(b)
I say this is "somewhat" what I'm looking for because I understand there may be better, more efficient/economic ways to diagram the temporal relationships taking place throughout the litigation process. If anyone has anything resembling this, knows where i can find something like this, or has any ideas regarding how I or we can go about creating this, then please share or let's discuss
Sorry if this was a bit lengthy. P.S., I may be doing a bad job of explaining exactly what I'm looking for, as I understand that some who read this may immediately think,"dude, you're just explaining an Outline?" Though I understand that what's been laid out here may resemble, in some or most respects, an "Outline;" I'm trying to gear this more toward a "temporal" understanding, rather than a "substantive" understanding, of civil procedure.
