The buyers of her home refused to release the security deposit because of its condition when she moved out. The attorney-client waited several weeks to notify her lawyer of the problem and then blamed the security deposit snafu on a typographical error in the lease agreement that the Chicago lawyer had drafted. The Chicago lawyer says the attorney-client then threatened to sue for malpractice unless she paid the client the amount of the lost security deposit. Los Angeles lawyer Carlos Lloreda, Jr., says attorney-clients can't always be trusted to follow their professional training when it comes to depositions. They have a tendency to talk too much in depositions.
Attorneys are horrible at depositions.
They just keep talking. They also question their own lawyer's questions. The Staten Island lawyer recalls one deposition where he was representing a fellow lawyer who had been involved in a car accident that appeared to be the lawyer's fault. The lawyer asked his client whether he had tried to control the car before the impact. Robinson recalls having one attorney-client make his own objection from the witness stand.