Thanks to Mike of Techdirt for this fascinating WP story about attorneys from Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue who are accused of breaking into an expert witnesses' password protected website to find material to discredit him. This story has everything: overzealous attorneys, self-important judges, gadfly expert witnesses... Check it out. Favorite quote:
Asked who paid for Stewart's clever Web searching on Egilman's site, Stewart said Occidental Chemical, though the material ended up in the Brush Wellman suit. Asked why, Stewart said, "We have to bill someone."
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again: I bet this story makes it all over the net, and within a week the top result of a Google search for "Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue " will be a link to this story. Bet they didn't expect that.
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