Litigation is the process of carrying on a lawsuit. The New York booklet uses the definition in its most direct sense: it is the conduct of a legal action, not merely the existence of a dispute in the abstract.
The term belongs to the background vocabulary of depositions, judgments, plaintiffs, testimony, and court procedure. Notaries are not litigators merely because they administer an oath to a witness or take a deposition, but those functions sometimes place notaries at the procedural edge of litigation practice.
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