“We’d all be a lot happier if we had some romancing foreplay pre-trial and left the rough stuff for trial,” said Ariana Tadler, a partner in the New York office Milberg LLP.

Tadler, speaking about cooperation between attorneys “on both sides of the v.,” participated in a six-member panel discussion of what works and what doesn’t in the federal courts. The presentation took place on Tuesday, the second and final day of the 2010 Conference on Civil Litigation, sponsored mainly by the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules.