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Early in my career, I learned that it’s bad form for a lawyer to accuse another party of having “lied.” Judges generally frown upon this.
So, you can imagine that my interest was piqued when I read an Eighth Circuit decision issued yesterday weighing “the appropriate sanction for a plaintiff who lied in a deposition and withheld information.”
But this wasn’t just any plaintiff. She was the former in-house counsel at a Fortune 100 company who claimed that retaliation motivated the company to end her employment.
“Her retaliation claim would have