The California lawyer who fired off more than 100 explicit and threatening emails in an insurance dispute with Allstate last year still hasn’t apologized to opposing counsel, according to a new court filing.

Christopher Hook told his opposing counsel at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton to “eat a bowl of dicks” as part of the string of expletive-laden emails that became public when Allstate’s lawyers asked to remove him from the case and for a restraining order against him. Hook later called the emails part of a “confidential negotiation tactic” in court papers seeking to remain in the case. But when confronted about his correspondence by U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II of the Central District of California at a hearing last month, Hook, who had been fired by his clients, said he would pay his opposing counsel’s bills for bringing the motion to boot him from the case.

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