Comments on: Clients behaving badly: What’s a lawyer to do? http://blogs.mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2008/05/08/clients-behaving-badly/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:32:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Anonymous http://blogs.mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2008/05/08/clients-behaving-badly/#comment-3837 Anonymous Fri, 09 May 2008 13:05:38 +0000 http://blogs.mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2008/05/08/clients-behaving-badly/#comment-3837 If you actually read the opinion, it's not the use of the mere use of the "f" word that got the client in trouble, as this post seems to suggest. Nor is was it the failure of the lawyer to tell the client not to use the "f" word. The opinion is 44 pages. There are fairly lengthy excerpts of the client's deposition testimony in which the client is truly hostile and abusive toward the attorney questioning him. For instance, he tells counsel "Go f*** yourself, Bob." And, when the attorney asks about something in a loan file, the client says to the attorney "Open it up and find out. I'm not your f*cking b*tch." The client was also clearly evasive. According to the opinion, the sanctioned attorney did very little to convince his client to answer the questions posed. If you actually read the opinion, it’s not the use of the mere use of the “f” word that got the client in trouble, as this post seems to suggest. Nor is was it the failure of the lawyer to tell the client not to use the “f” word.

The opinion is 44 pages. There are fairly lengthy excerpts of the client’s deposition testimony in which the client is truly hostile and abusive toward the attorney questioning him. For instance, he tells counsel “Go f*** yourself, Bob.” And, when the attorney asks about something in a loan file, the client says to the attorney “Open it up and find out. I’m not your f*cking b*tch.” The client was also clearly evasive. According to the opinion, the sanctioned attorney did very little to convince his client to answer the questions posed.

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