What to do when opposing counsel just won't talk?

August 8, 2006 11:29 PM

File a Motion to Compel Acceptance of Lunch Invitation. How lovely, is our first impression. Our second impression is that we have had many attorneys on the other side with whom lunch would have been absolutely unimaginable.*

Sometimes opposing counsel is uncrediby unreasonable, rude, meanspirited, and screetchy. Oh, and loathsome. Did we mention loathsome? It is probably a good idea for a Court to require collegiality when it is not present, via an accepted invitation to lunch. But Courts also need to recognize that some attorneys are simply awful--and not force the innocent to suffer their crap.

*From long ago cases.