When the Badly-Behaved Party Is Opposing Counsel
We are hearing more and more often from SRLs about “sharp practice” when they face a lawyer on the other side of their case.
There are many common elements to these reports, which I find to be largely credible. SRLs believe that their unfamiliarity with the legal system, combined with the tendency of some judges to assume the worst of them – that their cases are without merit, or that they are “vexatious” and abusing the process when they make honest mistakes and misjudgments – is being exploited by counsel on the other side as a matter of strategy.
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