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Law firm fined $20K for discovery abuse

Posted: 7:00 pm Mon, September 6, 2010
By Brendan Kearney

A federal judge in Baltimore has fined an employment law firm and its military-engineer client $20,000 for working outside the discovery process to obtain sensitive documents in litigation against the engineer’s former employer and asserting privilege with regard to related e-mails in bad faith. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz came down on The Employment Law ...

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