'You are not dicking around with a rookie;' lawyer's deposition 'churlishness' is memorialized
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A federal magistrate judge has declined to impose a monetary sanction on a Montana lawyer who told opposing counsels that they are “not dicking around with a rookie” and suggested that he could get on a plane to personally punch one of them in the head.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Clare Hochhalter of the District of North Dakota didn’t require lawyer Todd Alan Stubbs or his client to pay attorney fees incurred by the opposing lawyers in the deposition, which ended when the client fired Stubbs during a break. But Hochhalter published several of Stubbs’ deposition rants in his Dec. 15 order, Law360 reports.