Ethics/Professional Responsibility,
Law Practice
Jan. 22, 2021
The rise of incivility in the legal profession
Any argument that such behavior is excused by a lawyer’s duty to zealously advocate for his or her client must fall on deaf ears.
Dan Jacobson
Dan is a practicing attorney in Tustin. He is also a member of the California Board of Accountancy (appointed by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon), an expert witness in insurance cases, and retired Chair of the Democratic Foundation of Orange County.
"Although we have not as yet reached the point where the participants at a deposition will be required to be licensed by the state boxing commission [citation], we note with dismay the ever growing number of cases in which most of the trappings of civility between counsel are lacking." Townsend v. Superior Court, 61 Cal. App. 4th 1431, 1438 (1998). Although 23 y...
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