
Long ago we established a trend on Spring Break. My husband would schedule trials, depositions, mediations, settlement negotiations during Spring Break. It generally forces the other side to compromise since they want to leave town. Usually speaking - he gets favorable results with this tactic.
In typical form - he did the same this year - and guess what it worked so well - he is all settled, negotiated, mediated and trialed up - and now he has nothing going on this week.