A plaintiff’s counsel must pay $3,000 in sanctions after doing an “extraordinarily poor job of client intake in not learning highly material information about his client” in a sexual harassment and discrimination suit, a federal judge has ruled.
“In contrast to the efforts of defendants’ lawyers, plaintiff’s lawyer should be roundly embarrassed,” Eastern District Judge Brian Cogan (See Profile) wrote in Cajamarca v. Regal Entertainment Group, 11-cv-02780. “I sympathize with defendants’ position. Regal had to expend a great deal of money not only on the capable lawyers that successfully defended plaintiff’s suit, but also on the highly efficient but time consuming administrative human resources machinery used to investigate plaintiff’s claim internallyall in a case that, as a practical matter, had very little chance in front of a jury, given plaintiff’s duplicity.”
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