Greedy Trial Lawyer
Another Variation Of The Corporate "Shellgame Discovery" Technique
Category: Gaming The System
The business community labels plaintiffs' attorneys as greedy trial lawyers, many claims of the injured as frivolous lawsuits and certain jurisdictions as judicial hellholes. These terms must have tested well in focus groups.
I haven't had the chance to focus group test shellgame discovery, but that is the reality of the corporate approach to the discovery process in litigation.
One variation of the shellgame discovery technique in the defense of a lawsuit is reported below:
Best Buy attorney falsified e-mails
Timothy Block, an attorney representing Best Buy Co. Inc., has admitted falsifying e-mails and e-mail attachments submitted in a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit in Seattle.Block is "being treated now for psychological conditions related to stress and depression," said his attorney, Richard Thomas, of St. Paul-based Burke and Thomas. Block has reported his actions to the Minnesota Board of Professional Responsibility, which is reviewing the case.
Block voluntarily admitted to his firm that he had "redacted and altered documents" that he later gave attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Washington state case, Thomas said.
For a more fully developed instance of shellgame discovery see a previous post on this blog, Hospital Risk Management Carried To Its Dishonest Extreme.
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