I suspect either her family has worked with Nagel and has a working history with him, or he’s the one who would take this case on a contingency basis, because it’s going to be expensive dealing with multiple defendants.
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I dated one of these once. I had to craftily extricate myself from the relationship. While we were dating he was ‘let go’ from his PhD program by awarding him his Master’s degree and telling him that if he wanted to persue a PhD he would have to do it in a different lab. Basically he couldn’t play nice with people and they told him to f off. He was a classic narcissist. Charming to start, then out right dangerous.
After many months of raging that he would destroy his supervisors life (he used to say “it’s not eye for an eye, it’s you take my eye, I take your life”. Sweet guy ), he actually sued them. For not letting him finish his degree. He lost. He appealed. He lost. He took it to the supreme court. He lost.
Typing this out now, he had so many similarities to this case. They asked him to leave his PhD program and he said no. They actually convocated him and sent a Master’s degree. He said no. He sued them stating he would be staying in the lab to finish his PhD. A lab where he wasn’t wanted. For 5 more years. After they fired him. He took them to the supreme court.
Ego. Means. Distorted reality.
Beyond grateful I got out before things got bad. As we can see, not all are so lucky.
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Does that mean that they do not need to reply? will they eventually have to get deposed?
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Oh I wouldn’t doubt she’d keep after MB. After all, he has that farm down in Florida he could sign over to her. Heck, she’s already moved in next door!
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SGF insurance = money
MB = farm
MHG/RC = a truly competitive GP horse?
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L bet she has to register a win, and that is driving/will drive her to great lengths.
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Eek, good for you, getting out! I have one in my past too. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.
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Good point. Just looked at locations on google and considering JK, who is from Livingston, is only 10 minutes from Nagel, who is in Roseland, I bet you’re very much right in that they have some sort of history together, and I think that also lends to Nagel doing a contingency basis.
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Probably the same with ED.
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What’s the line in the filing about she just didn’t want to… Fits her refusal to leave SGF/HH
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I hope he knows her medical condition before he opens that can of worms. All of it.
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LK = still going nowhere. Too lazy, too many drugs, too averse to doing the work.
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For the fabulous legal minds here:
Is it typical to ask a deponent (I just learned that word in the filing) to bring all the evidence to be examined with them to the deposition? Or is that meant to be the evidence that the deponent is using for their own argument (i.e. specific to the particular deponent being the Plaintiff)? In other words, does opposing counsel really expect you to bring the discovery requests with you?
Autocorrect does not like this new word that I learned.
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True. Just looked and ED is also from Roseland NJ. I would guess that JK has history with them both and called in a favor to represent LK. I have to wonder if they would have represented her had they not known JK. Also wonder if they are regretting it now. Could be why Nagel’s court docs have been so weak - he is resentfully doing a favor for JK.
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Well, the claims are out there. So is the request for medical records. So I guess we will see how that goes.
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I think many of us here have “one of those” in our past. My spidey sense went off when this all started as I recognized many, many, many signs. Pretty sure others here had the same reaction.
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Naw, attorneys can withdraw if they have disagreements with clients on how to proceed, it’s not a big deal. Not for the attorney, anyway. And if she is playing games like making him write that rediculous demand to appear at the deposition by zoom with zero evidence to back him up? He’s got grounds to fire her, he has no obligation to her, just refunds any retainer that maybe left and Bob’s your uncle.
Edited for typos. Unlike @FitzE, I do do typos!
Ha, I said do do!
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Typically, you would ask for all those documents during the written part of discovery, so you can formulate questions for the depositions.
This case, however, is not seeming very typical so far.
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Yes as back in ye olden days of writing on bits of dead trees, we have to photocopy the original that the deponent of course got to keep, as it was their bit of dead tree.
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Funny @Mersidoats, I had the same exact gut response, and I knew neither Michael or LK, and have little to no interest in the dressage world. But something seemed way off, and it was not Michael!
But, being elderly and illegal might be part of it! With age (hopefully) comes wisdom! Well, that is for most of us. Those with ego impairment never seem to learn!
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