To the extent that we learn rules of civil procedure in law school—the rules that the litigants and the courts follow when presenting and processing civil cases for resolution—the focus is exclusively on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which apply only in federal court. And my personal indoctrination into the nitty-gritty of federal civil practice was especially intensive at the start of my legal career, which began with a two-year judicial law clerkship for a judge serving on the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
After my clerkship, I went to work for a large Philadelphia law firm that represented clients in civil cases in both federal and state court. And that experience was the first of many opportunities to learn that the procedures that applied to civil cases pending in federal court could be quite different from the procedures that applied to civil cases pending in Pennsylvania state court.
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