{"id":11981,"date":"2020-05-17T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legaltalktexas.hammerle.com\/?p=11981"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:23:43","slug":"butt-shaking-accusation-of-lawyers-bad-acts-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/legaltalk\/legal-talk\/butt-shaking-accusation-of-lawyers-bad-acts-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Butt Shaking &#8211; Accusation of Lawyer\u2019s Bad Acts goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1989 the justices of the two highest courts of this great State of Texas, disgusted with the bad behavior of a \u201cminority\u201d of Texas lawyers, adopted a missive called The Texas Lawyer\u2019s Creed. It sets forth aspirational rules of conduct using a consistent theme of the lawyer\u2019s duty of honesty, candor and fairness towards clients, opposing counsel and judges.<\/p>\n<p>Little did the justices realize that their Creed contained a fatal omission, a fact that did not come to light for nigh on 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Creed, you see, does not address butt shaking.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the Creed requires a lawyer to recognize that effective representation does not require antagonistic or obnoxious behavior.\u00a0 But does it contain an outright prohibition on a butt shake?\u00a0 Nope, there is nary a word. A sad omission to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is there an express prohibition for using the \u201cf\u201d word as a verb in conversation with the opposing counsel. Perhaps the Justices thought the sentence \u201cI can disagree without being disagreeable\u201d would cover that. Alas, that is apparently too vague for some attorneys to grasp.<\/p>\n<p>We might as well address another glaring oversight:\u00a0 the appropriateness of an attorney linking a person\u2019s hairstyle to his sexual activities.\u00a0 It is true that the Creed requires an attorney to avoid disparaging personal remarks against an opposing counsel. We just do not know if the Justices envisioned an attorney making a causal connection between an opposing counsel\u2019s \u201cponytail haircut\u201d and speculative after-hours behavior.<\/p>\n<p>It is a pretty good bet that the Justices would have been sorely tempted to write a much more detailed creed had they been privy to the allegations of attorney misbehavior in a case pending in federal district court in the Southern District of Texas.\u00a0 In that case, an employment dispute, the plaintiff\u2019s attorney filed a motion for sanctions that accused the opposing counsel of doing those exact actions \u2013 butt shake, \u201cf\u201d word, and ponytail remark \u2013 during a court-ordered mediation.\u00a0\u00a0 Although he disputed the allegations, the opposing counsel and his law firm ended up withdrawing from the case. The federal judge wrote an order that opened with the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the sentences a judge does not imagine \u2013 much less welcome \u2013 writing includes the words \u201cbutt shaking\u201d in describing a lawyer\u2019s alleged actions at a mediation.\u00a0 Sadly, those words fit here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That, of course, is not the first time that an attorney has been publicly called out for over-zealous behavior.\u00a0 Apparently there is no shortage of possible bad acts \u2013 some of the less offensive ones include intentionally spilling a drink on piles of original documents during a deposition, making a secret recording of conversations between the opposing attorney and his client, serving notice for a deposition that is scheduled to start less than 12 hours later, substituting pages in a document taken from a court file (in the days before scanning), contacting jurors during a trial, and intentionally violating a \u201cgag\u201d order forbidding any public discussion of a case.<\/p>\n<p>The Lawyers Creed, indeed.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/lawyers\/virginia-hammerle\/\">Virginia Hammerle<\/a> is a Texas attorney whose practice includes <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/practice-areas\/estate-planning-probate\/estate-planning\/\">estate planning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/practice-areas\/elder-law\/guardianship\/\">guardianship<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/practice-areas\/estate-planning-probate\/probate\/\">probate<\/a>. Sign up for her newsletter at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:legaltalk@hammerle.com\">legaltalk@hammerle.com<\/a><em>. Contact Hammerle Morris Law Firm to schedule a consultation at <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerle.com\/lewisville-attorney\/#form\">hammerle.com. <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This column does not constitute legal advice.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1989 the justices of the two highest courts of this great State of Texas, disgusted with the bad behavior of a \u201cminority\u201d of Texas lawyers, adopted a missive called The Texas Lawyer\u2019s Creed. 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