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Jump to full article: Wall Street Journal Blogs, 2007-01-26
Author: Posted by Peter Lattman
Intro: On Monday we posted on colleague Paul Davies’s story on an Ohio court lambasting a plaintiffs’ firm in an asbestos case brought against a tobacco manufacturer. Judge Harry Hanna criticized the law firm for, among other things, one of its attorneys wearing a t-shirt in a deposition that read: “Killer smokes — Kent cigarettes — 1952-1956 — made by Lorillard Tobacco.” After reading the article we thought to ourselves, “Gee whiz, we’d love to get our readers a photo of this guy in his killer tee.”
Well, the intrepid Davies came through for us in a big way. At left: Christopher Andreas, a junior partner at Brayton Purcell in Novato, Calif. The photo was captured from the videotaped deposition.
Judge Harry Hanna came down hard on Andreas, questioning Andreas’s “appearance, attitude and veracity” and finding that he “lied to the court” on several instances.
“For an officer of the court to show such lack of respect is shocking,” Judge Hanna wrote.
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