Judge sanctions lawyer and client $150K, citing 'mountain of evasiveness' and 'outright lies'
Judge sanctions lawyer and client $150K, citing ‘mountain of evasiveness’ and ‘outright lies’ Image from Shutterstock.com. A Texas judge has ordered a Houston-area lawyer and his client to be jointly sanctioned $150,000 for the client’s “outright lies” in litigation and “a mountain of evasiveness” in discovery. In a Jan. 21 order, Judge R. O’Neil Williams of the 268th District Court in Texas imposed the sanctions on solo practitioner Paul B. Rosen of Bellaire, Texas, and his client Gen Fu Zhang, report Law.com and Law360. The case involved a dispute over a commercial le...
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