Fascinating morning (not)

This morning I sat through a telephone deposition where the German-speaking witness was in Vienna, the translator was in Florida, co-counsel was in New York, and opposing counsel, the court reporter and I were in Minneapolis. The logistics of this would have made things hard enough if the questions had been general in nature, but the witness is a CPA and he was being asked about detailed reports with lots of numbers and words in German. Damn, that was painful.