Five Of The Most Annoying Objections
By Opposing Counsel and The Rulings That Are Sure To Follow
By Katherine Gallo and Christopher Cobey
The Docket – San Mateo County Bar Association, August/September 1998

YOU are a rational person. YOU conduct yourself in a professional manner as an attorney. YOU have a passing familiarity with the California Code of Civil Procedure, Rules of Court, and local Rules of the San Mateo County Consolidated Courts. YOU don't think a "good time" consists of appearing to argue motions to compel or resisting discovery or having opposing counsel in your ear demanding to have it "his way".

Unfortunately, you have run into a lawyer very unlike yourself. Maybe she's a local lawyer, maybe he's from out of the County. In any event, this person is over the top demanding discovery in one or more ways. What's a pro like you to do in order to (a) assert or defend your client's rights in discovery, (b) reconfirm your reputation as a professional, and (c) demonstrate to the offending attorney that "We just don't comport ourselves in that fashion in San Mateo County"?

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