We have a pending pleading asking that an opposing client be held in contempt of court for failure to follow a court’s order. At the first court date opposing client appears without a lawyer. I was able to speak with the client about the issue and he actually had some documentation showing that he likely was in compliance with the court’s orders and the issue just an inability of this guy and my client to communicate. Fine, the issue is likely off the table and we move on to the other areas of real disagreement. Always nice to get even a portion of the case settled, right?
Not!
I get a Motion to Quash Service regarding the contempt portion of the case from his new lawyer. I don’t want to talk specifically about the procedure because the pleading we got was also laughable in its wrongness. But overlooking that for a moment, if a client is actually in compliance with a court’s order and this chunk of the case is resolved by literally showing me one piece of paper, why ya filing anything?
And then there was the lawyer recently who wouldn’t even have a telephone conversation with me because she dislikes my client…
We’re all professionals here, we are professionals, we are professionals…what does that mean again?
