{"id":5867,"date":"2013-09-27T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T00:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2013-09-27T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T00:33:11","slug":"how-to-survive-depositions-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How to Survive Depositions Gone Wrong&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look what I just found in my not-yet-posted clippings! A pretty startling essay from Lawyerist, a punchy lawyers&#8217; blog. Although it&#8217;s written as an advisory for lawyers, there&#8217;s a description of how one client behaved \u2014 not well, let us say \u2014 and how that behavior, along with the lawyer&#8217;s apparent inability to control the client, got both sanctioned by the judge.<\/p>\n<p>So, consider this a &#8220;you want to talk in a deposition?&#8221; addendum. 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