Deponent to Lawyer: ‘That’s amazing. Your wife doesn’t think so.’
An excerpt from a deposition taken last month in Dallas, Texas:
Plaintiff’s Counsel: Remember we still have a trial. There will be some more of it come up then, but no reason to go over it all now. Can’t have it all. You’ll have cut your hair by then, you know.Witness: You have a thing about my longer hair, don’t you? Are you jealous or what?
(Off-the-record discussion.) (Exhibit No. 25 marked.)
Witness: Well, you’d probably look better if you shaved it. Anyway, go ahead.
Counsel: I know you would be. I know you would look better if you shaved yours.
Witness: Do you really think so?
Counsel: Yeah, I really do.
Witness: That’s amazing. Your wife doesn’t think so.
Charming. You can read an extended excerpt — which also includes this line of testimony, “Come on, old man. Say something about my hair.” — over here.
Gretidog Field Day: Oral and Videotaped Deposition of Darwin Deason [Infirmation / Greedy Texas]
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lat are you posting this crap just to see your numbered system on comments?
#3, well, there are advantages.
Say something about my hair.
I agree with # 4
Oh man. just noticed the numbers. YAY
7
14! SWEET!!!!
Agreed. The numbering is going to make things much better. That is change I CAN believe in.
Is that really how they talk down there? I can't understand any of it.
Don't mess with Texas, y'all.
The new "First" on ATL has got to be typing the number six for comment number nine
lat, these numbers suck!!!
lat i mean it lets at least get a referendum on this
I've had to deal with Texas depos... total TTT state, total TTT civ pro rules.
15!
15!
15! Oh Crap...
15! Oh Crap...
Is every deposition in Texas just a stray comment away from turning into a fistfight?
http://www.godwinpappas.com/Lawyers/lawyer.aspx?id=33
"Darwin Deason"
sounds like a winner. although i hear he's got great hair.
Is that how lawyers are supposed to say, "That's what she said..."?
Good work #20... any leads on the witness? Anyone try the Vanity Fair angle?
The scene is so much more fun to visualize knowing what these guys look like.
How do you know what # you will be?
This guy is a loose cannon
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3862/is_200306/ai_n9293138
Darwin was the CEO of a tech company called ACS. Accused of being a bad boy and apparently has let himself go.
24, it's called counting. --27
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765
Paper! Snow! A ghost!
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196
4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273
7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094
3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912
God Bless Texas. (tear to my eye)
And yes, every depo in Texas IS minutes away from a fistfight...and it is AWESOME.
F to the A - 29.
F to the A - 30.
F to the A - F****32.
http://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/0603darwindeason_files/image002.jpg
No id on which wife # that is in the back, but I think we know where Mr. Deason spent at least some of his money. Nice...
Remember, though, only the T14 comments are prestigious.
30, 31 and 32 - you are a retard.
Sincerely,
30, 31, 32 and 33.
Foiled again.
-Not 33
Trentasette
I have actually appeared at a few depositions in Texas that have turned into fist fights. They usually settle before trial. However it is awesome when opposing counsel has to object based on prejudice during trial when you try to present a page from the deposition that shows the altercation...or better yet the video tape.
I have actually appeared at a few depositions in Texas that have turned into fist fights. They usually settle before trial. However it is awesome when opposing counsel has to object based on prejudice during trial when you try to present a page from the deposition that shows the altercation...or better yet the video tape.
We should just give Texas back to Mexico.
I love the title "Gretidog Field Day" (a commenter on greedytexas who hates goodwin pappas) but somehow i think i may be one of the only people on this site that reads greedytexas.
#40 - Heh. That's *one* way of sending illegal immigrants back home I guess.
I think every deposition in the great redneck state of Texas is a step away from turning into a gunfight.
Sometimes I wish I was a Texan. Somtimes.
Don't threaten me
Wow, a number-system change mid-thread on the numbers?
Response to number 19, not only is every deposition in Texas a stray comment away from a fistfight, you could also include every greeting, nod of the head, smile, question about the health of one's parents and spouses and general comment about the general state of the weather. I saw a fistfight over someone cutting in line at communion, once. In short, I don't want to say most people in Texas are crazy as hatters, but, when the evidence points in that direction, you have to send it to the jury.
FORTY-EIGHTH!!!
LOL at 19. Sure seems the answer is yes.
39, that's awesome. Do you practice in Texas or have you just had the pleasure of having multiple cases there? And are we talking state or federal court?
The link I had has been removed, but check out the Jamail dep if you want to see no-class Texas lawyers getting into fights, threats, etc., with their deponents.
50,
I practice in Texas. The type of litigation that is the subject of this thread is primarily at the state court level. The federal courts here are quite different because the judges do everything they can to make sure you settle and do not go to trial (i.e. the East Texas Rocket Docket *encourages* defendants to settle because they want no part of the jury). The state court judges want to do the same thing, but since they are actually just politicians they have to play favorites (i.e. if you think $100 check to a presidential nominee gets you tons of mailers, then just think about what $100 does to a state court judge). It used to be that the old time lawyers kept everything in check based on their professionalism, but tort reform *encouraged* most of them to leave the practice or scale back (i.e. they already made their money and do not need the pain of practicing after tort reform) and this has caused the Texas state courts to become laughable (i.e. it is a rare day that a plaintiff wins at the Texas Supreme Court and when it happens it is a Insurance company). If you think W has messed up the national justice system, then you should just see what his *reforms* have done to this states already questionable justice system (i.e. did anyone catch that recently a death row inmate was denied his final appeal because the appeals court closed at 5:00 sharp and the lawyers (who called ahead) got the brief there at 5:15 on the day the execution was scheduled?).
50,
I practice in Texas. The type of litigation that is the subject of this thread is primarily at the state court level. The federal courts here are quite different because the judges do everything they can to make sure you settle and do not go to trial (i.e. the East Texas Rocket Docket *encourages* defendants to settle because they want no part of the jury). The state court judges want to do the same thing, but since they are actually just politicians they have to play favorites (i.e. if you think $100 check to a presidential nominee gets you tons of mailers, then just think about what $100 does to a state court judge). It used to be that the old time lawyers kept everything in check based on their professionalism, but tort reform *encouraged* most of them to leave the practice or scale back (i.e. they already made their money and do not need the pain of practicing after tort reform) and this has caused the Texas state courts to become laughable (i.e. it is a rare day that a plaintiff wins at the Texas Supreme Court and when it happens it is a Insurance company). If you think W has messed up the national justice system, then you should just see what his *reforms* have done to this states already questionable justice system (i.e. did anyone catch that recently a death row inmate was denied his final appeal because the appeals court closed at 5:00 sharp and the lawyers (who called ahead) got the brief there at 5:15 on the day the execution was scheduled?).
50,
I practice in Texas. The type of litigation that is the subject of this thread is primarily at the state court level. The federal courts here are quite different because the judges do everything they can to make sure you settle and do not go to trial (i.e. the East Texas Rocket Docket *encourages* defendants to settle because they want no part of the jury). The state court judges want to do the same thing, but since they are actually just politicians they have to play favorites (i.e. if you think $100 check to a presidential nominee gets you tons of mailers, then just think about what $100 does to a state court judge). It used to be that the old time lawyers kept everything in check based on their professionalism, but tort reform *encouraged* most of them to leave the practice or scale back (i.e. they already made their money and do not need the pain of practicing after tort reform) and this has caused the Texas state courts to become laughable (i.e. it is a rare day that a plaintiff wins at the Texas Supreme Court and when it happens it is a Insurance company). If you think W has messed up the national justice system, then you should just see what his *reforms* have done to this states already questionable justice system (i.e. did anyone catch that recently a death row inmate was denied his final appeal because the appeals court closed at 5:00 sharp and the lawyers (who called ahead) got the brief there at 5:15 on the day the execution was scheduled?).
I practice in Texas and have never seen this in action. But, notably, when these sorts of things do happen they tend to be by the "big name" and thus big ego trial attorneys. 52-54, I would agree that tort reform has harmed the practice of law generally on both plaintiff and defense side; we need the pendulum to swing more toward the middle. But, as long as the Valley, and places like Jefferson County, continue to do crazy things (like granting a new trial when a defense verdict was handed down, even though plaintiffs were able to keep out almost all of the defense evidence without having a single objection to plaintiff's evidence sustained) the trend won't switch.
What I want to know is what happens when they delete a comment for whatever reason? Does that number disappear and cause a gap in the numbering, or do all the subsequent comments get renumbered and throw off all the references to those comments?
Does anyone know if the litigation in this thread is primarily at the state court level, or if the federal courts in Texas encourage settling?
55,
You must not have ever been in a deposition with any attorney from the offices of Brent Coon or Bickel Brewer. I have and every deposition I have had with them has been *interesting.* By the way you mentioned Jefferson County and "the Valley." Congratulations you have just identified maybe 20 counties. The state of Texas still has over 400 other counties where the juries were reasonable, but now the citizens of those counties have no recourse because of tort reform. I am not pulling for the PI guys, but just pointing out that tort reform has gone a little over board. In the last two weeks some infants died in Corpus Christi (Nueces County) from overdoses of blood thinner. Since the economic damages are not there I doubt anyone is seriously going to look at those cases and Nueces County used to be up there with Brazoria and Jefferson on the list of last places you wanted to find yourself as a defendant.
56 - No the numbering stays the same. There are two types: (1) ever line is numbered from 1 to the end of the deposition (generally) or (2) each line is numbered by page.
57 - This type of litigation is at the state court level. The federal courts encourage settlement. Each federal district encourages it differently (i.e. see the Eastern Dist.'s Rocket docket as opposed to the Northern Dist.'s forced mediations)
55,
You must not have ever been in a deposition with any attorney from the offices of Brent Coon or Bickel Brewer. I have and every deposition I have had with them has been *interesting.* By the way you mentioned Jefferson County and "the Valley." Congratulations you have just identified maybe 20 counties. The state of Texas still has over 400 other counties where the juries were reasonable, but now the citizens of those counties have no recourse because of tort reform. I am not pulling for the PI guys, but just pointing out that tort reform has gone a little over board. In the last two weeks some infants died in Corpus Christi (Nueces County) from overdoses of blood thinner. Since the economic damages are not there I doubt anyone is seriously going to look at those cases and Nueces County used to be up there with Brazoria and Jefferson on the list of last places you wanted to find yourself as a defendant.
56 - No the numbering stays the same. There are two types: (1) ever line is numbered from 1 to the end of the deposition (generally) or (2) each line is numbered by page.
57 - This type of litigation is at the state court level. The federal courts encourage settlement. Each federal district encourages it differently (i.e. see the Eastern Dist.'s Rocket docket as opposed to the Northern Dist.'s forced mediations)
40,
You say, "We should just give Texas back to Mexico."
Learn some history, pal. The Texians won their independence from Mexico in 1836, and we had our own republic from 1836 to 1845. Texas is the only state that joined the union by treaty. Keep up nonsense like your comment above and we might exercise our right under the treaty to divide into 5 states. How would you like there to be 10 Texans in the Senate? ;)