What do reasonable lawyers do when an opposing attorney has a critically ill father during depositions? My latest about what unreasonable lawyers do.
Human decency and professional courtesy would dictate that the lawyers merely reschedule the deposition. But King and Spalding instead filed a motion for monetary sanctions against Coates for being at his critically ill father’s bedside instead of attending a deposition!
Not only did Judge Fitzpatrick deny the motion for sanctions, he actually awarded sanctions against the King and Spalding lawyers for fling the motion in the first place.