Tracey Salmon-Smith and Justin Ginter Offer Insight on Dealing With a Difficult Adversary in Article for PLI Chronicle

Business litigation partner Tracey Salmon-Smith and associate Justin Ginter coauthored an article for the Practising Law Institute (PLI) Chronicle titled “So Your Adversary Is a Jerk…” that outlines five tips for lawyers when working with a difficult adversary.

The five pieces of advice the authors discuss are:

1. Know with whom you are dealing.
2. Establish your professionalism and willingness to cooperate from the beginning.
3. Let writings come back to haunt them.
4. Do not let the behavior persist.
5. Depositions bring out the worst in unprofessional litigators.