More misconduct by lawyers which resulted in sanctions or other consequences, as reported on Law.com in August: Don’t seize on a typographical error made by your opponent as an excuse to ship documents to yourself and then argue that you complied with a subpoena (Glendale, Calif. lawyer Geoffrey Mousseau, hit with more than $12,000 in sanctions which were upheld on appeal)(Mike McKee, “Lawyer Sanctioned After Placing a Bad Bet on a Typo”, The Recorder, Aug. 24). Don’t keep filing lawsuits based on theories that the Third Circuit has previously rejected in your own cases (H. Francis deLone Jr. of Wayne, Pa., hit with federal Rule 11 sanctions arising from a civil rights suit he filed on behalf of a transit worker fired for testing positive for cocaine)(Shannon P. Duffy, “Lawyer Sanctioned — Again — for Losing Theory”, The Legal Intelligencer, Aug. 17). More don’ts: Aug. 3.
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More misconduct by lawyers which resulted in sanctions or other consequences, as reported on Law.com in August: Don’t seize on a typographical error made by your opponent as an excuse to ship documents to yourself and then argue that you complied with a subpoena (Glendale, Calif. lawyer Geoffrey Mousseau, hit with more than $12,000 in […]
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