Legal Ethics

Feuding Lawyer Ordered to Take Civility Class, Eat a Meal with His Opponent

By Debra Cassens Weiss

Sep 21, 2009, 07:22 am CST

Corrected: A Shakespeare-quoting federal judge has ordered a feuding lawyer to take a CLE civility class and to eat a meal with the opponent he labeled an ---hole during a deposition.

U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter wrote in a recent opinion that she was inspired by a Shakespeare quote… full story