http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/chevron-can-depose-opposing-lawyer-in-ecuador-case/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/chevron-can-depose-opposing-lawyer-in-ecuador-case/#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:10:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19817 As evidence mounts of attorney misconduct in a high-profile environmental case, a judge grants the oil company an extraordinary request to put plaintiff’s counsel Steven Donziger under oath. [Roger Alford, Opinio Juris; earlier]

Tags: Chevron, environment, privilege

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Tags: discovery, patent trolls, privilege

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