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by fatman 4574 days ago
You may be correct, but the type of lawyers drafting discovery requests to collect on a judgment aren't going to be in that parenthetical group. They probably just heard somewhere that Bitcoin=money and threw it in. You ask for anything and everything in discovery, just to see what sticks.
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A bitcoin article hit my Am Law Daily feed months ago: http://www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleALD.jsp?id=120261442.... Also the ABA Journal: http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/some_basic_rules_.... Finally, it's been mentioned several times on Above the Law this year: http://abovethelaw.com/tag/bitcoin. I think these are pretty mainstream sources such that a lawyer would have at least run across the term.
There have been a series of articles in American Banker this year too. Even staid, conservative industries watch their horizons for things that may affect them.
Mainstream for the type of lawyers who go to court to collect on judgments? ABA maybe, ATL not so much.

Oh wait, discovery after the judgment. Not a separate execution. Yeah, that could be a BigLaw thing.