Lawyers, What Are Your Awesome "I Rest My Case" Stories? (r/AskReddit)

lawyers offered it what's your best most bad as I rest my case moment as a young attorney I had stated a claim that an insurance company was dragging out a case in bad faith in hopes that my elderly client would die before they had to pay him I was requesting that the trial day be given priority due to my clients advanced age the judge was no spring chicken himself and seemed skeptical when he asked exactly how old my client was maybe thinking that he was in his 70s and must merely seem ancient to her baby lawyer like me when I responded that my client was 92 and the case has already gone on for five years the judge was visibly shocked and immediately granted my motion for priority shutting down the insurance company's attorney's attempt to respond they wrote us a check for a million dollars the next week too bad those buttholes already deprived him of five years of enjoying that shake I was representing a woman with a severe neck injury opposing counsel presented a test result that showed her cervical exam was normal I felt almost bad when I pointed out he had the wrong cervical area in mind I wonder how red his face got if I was that lady I'd have made my neck injury worse from throwing my hair back in laughter I was a second-year associate and handling my first trial I represented the plaintiff the defendant had an expert witness who had testified previously in about 40 similar cases this expert came out to my clients property and did a completely Bull's examination of the issue and his expert report was equally as Bulls for those of you that don't know expert testimony needs to meet a certain standard the Dalbert standard at least in my state in order to be admissible this guy basically took some photos and put a ruler on the ground a few times to make his report seem legit the partners at my firm told me it wasn't worth trying to file a Dalbert motion to strike his report testimony because the case was low-value under $100 k and those types of motions can be very complex and didn't want to build the client for it I was so angry about this guy being deemed an expert that I came in on a weekend on my own time and drafted a twenty page motion to strike his testimony I didn't build the client a dime the defendant didn't file a response to my Daubert motion to strike instead they waited until right before the expert was set to testify he had been sitting in court racking up fees for two full days beforehand the judge had the jury leave the room put the expert on the stand and allowed the defendants to do a direct examination of their expert the defendants attorney not taking my motion seriously had their inexperienced associate just like me do the examination it was incredibly basic and didn't respond to any of the points in my motion I was in charge of doing his cross exam it was my first cross exam of a witness ever I told the guy a seasoned expert witness apart on the stand I got his entire testimony and report struck they also had a second expert witness who was pretty terrible but not quite as terrible I also did his cross exam realizing that they were in serious trouble without their primary expert and their second experts at risk of getting struck the lead counsel for the defendant a named partner at a well-known firm did the direct exam for the second expert I again did the cross I got the second experts testimony struck except for one very very tiny area so essentially he was forced to testify with both hands tied behind his back it was the most gratifying moment of my legal career so far we had a case where opposing counsel was cross-examining our expert witness on hydrology regarding some silt runoff issues mr. Smith wouldn't you agree that the book I'm holding is highly respected in your field and considered to be the gold standard on the subject witness I am aware that it is highly regarded in my field would you be willing to explain in your own words what paragraph six - 10 on page 121 is describing witness reads the passage word-for-word yes I can read but could you put this passage in your own words for the court witness these are my own words I wrote it we were the defendants we were being sued by at home over silt in a lake we were able to prove that we weren't responsible and prevailed it actually originated from another site and entered the lake elsewhere however that site was owned by a very large corporation and I don't think the howa wanted to fight with an entity that could fight forever my sister got t-boned by a car causing a concussion when I was younger long story short we were in court with the judge who asked the driver if he had ever sped before no your honor I never speed was his reply the judge asked him a couple more times if he was sure if he never spent ever the driver was adamant that he never sped and never had before a few minutes later my sister's lawyer gave the judge some paperwork she read it and said to the driver it seems that you have some past driving violations can you tell me what they are for speeding the driver had to pay medical bills for my sister I feel like never is not a word that should be said in the courtroom not to my recollection probably would have saved an additional perjury charge I'm relatively jr. so I'm hoping to beat this one day I defend professionals and brought a motion to dismiss a case on the basis that the plaintiff could not prove my client was negligent as she had not served the required expert evidence as opposing counsel and I waited for our motion to be heard we were sitting in the courtroom the judge who I did not know one who had not read our materials wanted to talk to the parties of a short trial which was to be heard after our motion was argued that matter was also a professional negligence matter in the plaintiffs had no expert support the judge then spent ten minutes explaining that he had practiced in professional negligence for many years and was well versed in the evidentiary requirements to prove the elements of professional negligence in fact he said I very rarely use the word impossible in this courtroom but it is impossible for you to be successful without expert evidence mater was then called and I reveled in explaining to the judge that he was about to hear a motion to dismiss a professional negligence case on the basis that the plaintiff had no expert evidence i won so I call up my clients disgruntled former employee about a contract dispute that he started and that got my client into litigation after two questions it was obvious he was a lying son of a B I didn't want to call him as a witness he was prone to act unpredictably I took down his story as we talks which was easily proven false by documents and which cast my clients in a false and bad light I did not tell him how I'd caught him in lies fast forward one day I submit a list of known witnesses to opposing counsel as required by the rules witness number one was the lying sack of crap fast forward to trial my opposing counsel calls the lying sack of crap as his first witness and the lying sack of crap left's like a lying sack of crap he tells the same story on the witness stand and he told me on the phone I took emails that he wrote and entered them into evidence and proved him a clear liar my client didn't breach the contract the party sue indeed after the lying sack of crap left the witness stand I asked the court for a brief recess granted I approached opposing counsel my client was still willing to sign on to the walkaway settlement where no money changes hands and no fault was admitted we offered the deal two months before and it was angrily rejected now suddenly it was accepted score corporate lawyer so I don't have cases to rest but once opposing counsel was forcefully insisting that it was ridiculous for me to expect a certain provision in a contract we were negotiating and I pointed out that this provision was standard in his own firms contract forms as I knew from several prior transactions I'd worked on across from them pretty exciting stuff he took it in stride and said jokingly well of course it's fine when we asked for it I represented a company that was sued for breach of contract by a former independent contractor do two basically allege that my client wasn't paying him correctly in accordance with the contract during his deposition dude admits that he never reviewed any documents to make sure his allegations were true never reviewed his complaint before filing it to make sure the allegations in it were true and had no idea whether or not my client actually failed to pay him in accordance with the contract basically he tells me that he was suing my client because he didn't think their agreement was fair even though he agreed to the terms when he signed the contract the kicker is that he admitted that he owed my client money at arbitration he tries to flip his story and starts giving testimony that is the exact opposite of his death so I whip out his transcript and undermine his testimony bit by bit needless to say I won that case username checks out pretty satisfying story - not a case winning moment that emotion winning one for sure think of cases like a big conflict with motion hearings as little conflicts opposing attorney was insisting that rule a meant they could do X I tried multiple times to point out rule a literally did not say that during the hearing the judge reached behind them grabbed their Rules of Civil Procedure basically a dictionary of rules placed it in front of the other attorney and said show me where rule a says X other attorney did not take the hint weed rules out loud for a brutal five minutes and gave the book back I said judge I have nothing to add it was pretty fun oh that had to be excruciating for everyone especially the court reporter opposing counsel decided that I had coached my witness and gave him lines to repeat that he was lying short version is that he asked the witness if he spoke to me before he testified witness said he had attorney looked like he thought he had me attorney asked the witness what I told him what instructions I gave him witness looked him dead in the eye and said first thing he told me was to tell the truth no matter what he said the lawyer is never the one who goes to jail that he isn't going to jail for me and if I lie I'm on my own attorney looked like someone took the air out of him everyone in the courtroom simultaneously looked at me only time I've smirked or laughed in court I wanted to put my feet up on the table like I was Vincent La Guardia Gambini hands behind my head and say I'm done with this guy a lawyer friend of mine had written a blog post about a legal subject opposing counsel filed a motion again as others pointed out this is like the small battles which are part of the overall war of the lawsuit in which they had to cite their reasoning for their arguments in this particular motion they chose to dig through the website of my friend where they found that blog post which they chose to cite in their own arguments basically they were going for in our moment you can't argue against us because you yourself once wrote something which we think agrees with our point of view rather than dispute the nitty-gritty details of their argument my attorney friend simply responded with something along the lines of I am hon ought to be cited as an expert in this area by my esteemed opposing counsel now as their chosen expert let me tell you what the law means and why they are on it was glorious they very quickly revised their argument I was on the losing end represented a guy who had bought a company and the company failed spectacularly within months due to a number of reasons I could attribute to the seller and they had clearly lied about the company's finances to induce him to buy I was suing to rescind the deal have your crappy company back and give my guy his money back I laid out my huge case and thought I had it in the bag and then opposing counsel asked my guy I sent it true that you listed this business for sale a month ago yes and who did sell it correct you signed a purchase and sale yes but he never finished paying me he has more payments to make I'll just give his money back when you guys give me my money back my idiot client had me suing over a company that he had legally sold sucker never told me game over on the spot I'm not an attorney and it wasn't in front of a judge but I got into a dispute with a contractor who freaked up royally when installing a new heating system resulting in an asbestos contamination of my house their insurance argued the contractor couldn't have caused the contamination because the contamination was way worse than could have been possible from what the contractor did which is Bulls they argued the contamination must have been caused by the contractor that installed the previous heating system it was super satisfied - right our response one the previous heating system was placed twelve years earlier the asbestos dust was visibly lying everywhere arguing we didn't vacuum for 12 years was beyond ridiculous - the asbestos dust was on a floor we installed six months earlier included the receipt for the floor and then the third point was the most fun - right three I said they were welcome to believe the contamination was caused by the contractor who installed the previous system 12 years ago I included the receipt of that installation it was done by the same contractor the next letter was very brief stating they would pay us for all damages we were claiming not a lawyer built during a particularly nasty employment mediation hearing I got to ask my former employer a question about payments / employment law me did you or did you not pay into state mandated unemployment insurance fund for all your employees past and present silence mediator sir answer the question silence mediator well let me ask it did you or did you not pay into state mandated unemployment insurance fund for all your employees past and present silence mediator I'll take that as a no when I was in law school I had to argue a case for an exam I was the last in my class to go so there wasn't anyone arguing against me I opened with a motion to dismiss and supposing had failed to show the judge grading me chuckled and said Touche counsel I still had to go forward but we got off on the right foot and I ended up with an A genius if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 08 2019