A former lawyer at Cisco Systems, Inc., admits he got in trouble for a blog post in which he called the federal judicial district in East Texas a “banana republic.” Rick Frenkel says his boss, Cisco GC Mark Chandler, was “not very happy” about the remark.
Frenkel delivered his confession while testifying in a defamation suit brought by Eric Albritton, a Texas-based plaintiffs attorney. Albritton claimed that he was the subject of false accusations on Frenkel’s blog, and filed suit against both Cisco and Frenkel. The case ended in a confidential settlement on September 21, but not before each side got to present their version of events during four days of testimony.
