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I see a lot of lawyers acting that way in my practice. by Barrister

And I've had witnesses curse at me, threaten me, and storm out of the room, all with cameras rolling during depositions.

It's all contrived and their lawyers put them up to it, in my opinion.

I once had a very contentious deposition that took several days (I represented one of about 30 defendants). Deposition was in Minnesota, and I was the only out of town lawyer involved. I crossed the witness, and caught him out in a couple of lies. His lawyer was pissed - making objections, instructing his client not to answer my questions, and even trying to ask questions himself during my cross (which was on videotape). At the end of my cross, the guy's attorney said he was going to have significant redirect, but that it couldn't be done that day, so we'd have to come back.

I flew back from VA to Minneapolis on a Sunday (Father's Day), and the "redirect" consisted of 5 minutes' worth of questions about what a bad guy I was. Not a single substantive question. Nothing that any judge would allow a jury to see or read. He did it just to make me fly back and forth to Minnesota one more time. I had that bit of transcript up on my bulletin board for a while.

That's just an example of the stuff I see across the country in my area of practice.