As the standard skilled legal responsibility lawsuit will settle before trial, the most grueling, aggravating, and expensive stage of litigation—from the angle of the accounting firm—is pre-trial discovery. In discovery, the events trade evidence and witness testimony, and procure the identical from nonparties, to develop proof for trial and decide what fact issues are contested and require determination by trial. Judges have discretion to remain discovery till denial of a movement seeking dismissal of an entire grievance and typically will enter a discovery scheduling order soon after a solution to a quantity of counts of the grievance has been filed.