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Civil discovery violation costs $8.5M; "lawyers not hired guns"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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"'An attorney . . . is not a hired gun required to carry out every direction given by the client.'" In re Marriage of Gong and Kwong, 157 Cal. App. 4th 939, 69 Cal. Rptr. 3d 150, 158 (1st Dist. December 6, 2007), quoted in Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp., 2008 WL 66932, *13 n. 10 (S.D. Cal. January 7, 2008) (Qualcomm ordered to pay $8.5M legal fees for knowing civil discovery violations, part of which may be absorbed by other attorneys fees already ordered to be paid by Qualcomm) (and reported on Law.com). See Treatise § 3:20 on "lawyers as hired gun."

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on January 26, 2008 (boomark / email).

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