How not to practice law: Text your client how to answer questions during a deposition, then try to cover it up by claiming incompetence -- UPDATED

November 28, 2021

The Legal Profession Blog recently published a summary of a decision in Florida suspending a lawyer for 91 days for texting a client during a deposition (that was being taken through Zoom).  See here.  Interestingly, the lawyer taking the deposition corroborated the texts when the lawyer who has sent them, sent them to the other lawyer by mistake.... So, add lack of competence regarding technology to the list of examples of misconduct in the case.

Lawyer Ethics Alert Blog has more on the story here.

UPDATE 3/13/22:  Legal Ethics Lawyer published a comment on the case here.