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Today’s topic is simple, have you (not your client) ever been sanctioned? Did you deserve it? Where is the law library that benefits from all those sanctions?
Have you ever been sanctioned?
Sanctioned
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- Posted on 12 years ago
This isn't working. I voted for Yes by Bonnie the Beautiful (the obvious choice) and my vote didn't show up.
I dropped an F-Bomb during closing in front of Sally Lohrer in 1997. Cost me $250.
Well worth the price of admission! I would have loved to see the look on her face!
I got sanctioned $100 by Bonnie Bulla for not getting an RAR submitted on time. Then the order sanctioning me, which gave me 30 days to pay, sat in the DC office and then the District Court judge office for almost the full 30 days. I kid you not that I received the order to pay $100 on the day it was due. Thankfully, online payment was available.
I got sanctioned $100 (more than once) from Bonnie where my client's prior attorneys didn't exempt cases that had well over $50k in medical bills. They commited malpractice and I got sanctioned. Lame
Judge Eliz. Gonzalez once sanctioned me $250 for not having an EDCR 2.47 meeting before filing my Motions in Limine. The ironic thing was that the Court had already heard Plaintiff's MILs, and even though Plaintiff's counsel did not have an EDCR 2.47 meet and confer (which I pointed out in my oppositions), the Judge did not sanction Plaintiff's counsel. Thus, I thought the 2.47 meeting was unnecessary.
I later found out from one of Judge Gonzalez's former clerks that she is very vocally opposed to younger attorneys and oft times makes condescending remarks about them in her chambers. I guess the fact that my opposing counsel was a dinosaur worked against me.
For the longest time I refused to believe that judges had favorites or would give older/better known attorneys preferential treatment in their courtroom. I have been practicing 5 years now and it is apparent to me that I was just being dumb. I guess it will come back in my favor in about 15 years when my contemporaries are on the bench, right?
It might be worth it to look at it another way. I am older than most of the judges on the bench now. They were mentored by lawyers who belonged to a much smaller bar where most of us knew each other. Could it be that newer lawyers are practicing in a style that is not as welcome or, in other words, is abrasive and not "civil?"
With all due respect, I've found the older members of the bar to be far more abrasive and discourteous to me than my similarly-aged (younger) peers. It's been quite discouraging, actually. Isn't the law still, to this day, an apprenticeship profession to a large extent? Even when we're opposed to one another isn't there room for at least some understanding for our lack of experience, if not a bit of mentoring?
I can second this one. I always look forward to working with younger attorneys because they are generally much more civil. For some reason, the baby boomers tend to act like dick-douches towards the younger attorneys – even though the boomers are living on our dime (or future dimes) thanks to all of the entitlement programs.
9:19 and 10:34: I'm sorry to hear that. I'm not in the courtroom much anymore but I do talk to judges and they seem to feel that the culture has changed from the time when they were practicing (these are the ones who practiced civil law) and overall courtesy and civility have decreased.
8:45 here, I'm not sure about other young attorneys, but I always make it a point to be civil and courteous when I'm in Court. I just get the feeling that when I'm going up against an older attorney, I don't get as much deference as the other side.
so typical of the baby boomers to expect everything and give nothing…
Two of my mentors/heroes tried to teach me important lessons:
First and foremost, be a gentleman.
Don't write a letter in anger. And whatever you do, don't send the letter while you're angry.
Don't apologize for doing your job, and don't expect the other lawyer to apologize for doing so either.
Wheaton's Law: Don't be a Dick.
Bulla was in rare form this morning. Ughhhh.
Does she wear a robe like that delusional guy before her, Biggar? Didn't he just decide to start wearing a robe one day? Appointed position with an important role but not a judicial role, just a wannabee. Seemed like he was a little power mad.