Atty’s Deposition Conduct Nets $19K In Sanctions

Lawyers need to effectively manage their emotions when things get heated. In transcripts of various depositions examining the plaintiffs’ four experts, then-Kline & Specter attorney Thomas Bosworth “alternated between being rude, demeaning and obnoxious,” U.S. District Judge Stephanie L. Haines said in her Wednesday opinion, highlighting Bosworth’s use of a “higher-pitched, mocking tone to belittle […]

There’s No Course For Fist-Fighting In Law School

Lawyers aren’t supposed to fight each other physically. The system wasn’t designed that way. In fact, it is built as a replacement to combat. A California state judge declared a mistrial Monday in a contentious legal malpractice case over allegations Geragos & Geragos botched a medical malpractice suit, an outcome that a Geragos attorney attributed […]

Don’t Be So Easy On Yourself

Trying to sum up our risky business, my Dad used to quote President Nixon: “Failure isn’t falling down. Failure is not getting up after you’ve fallen down.” Jason Isbell put it another way in this song against self-pity. Don’t be so easy on yourself (don’t be so easy on yourself)Don’t be so easy on yourself […]