Q: Defendant's lawyers claim attorney client privilege, and defendant sparsely answers interrogatories?
Defendant's lawyers are trying to provide extremely limited responses to interrogatories by every argument possible, to the point of making discovery moot!
A:
Every case is unique and more information is needed to properly answer your query intelligently. In addition, you should NOT be discussing your case on an open forum like this.
It is always a good idea to contact a local attorney that handles these types of cases in the court where you would have to appear. If you are in litigation you should have a lawyer. If you don't that suggests your case may not be that strong...if it is a negligence case.
In other words, I am in Palm Springs and you don’t want to hire a Palm Springs lawyer for an Orange Co case. In those cases, I usually try to refer the potential client to a lawyer that is closer to where this happened.
Most Accident lawyers will offer a free consultation to review the facts. For other areas of law, many lawyers will bill for a consultation.
Call a local attorney to discuss in more detail and request an appointment...and/or please remember that the court will appoint a court-appointed lawyer for you and that lawyer will have all the evidence in front of him/her and be in a better position to give you an intelligent answer.
If you need help finding a good lawyer and are in a position to retain one, please contact me at 760 837 7500 and I will give you some names.
Good Luck
A: That's common. Either meet and confer, then move to compel and/or start taking depositions. If you have an attorney, this concern should be directed to him/her. If you don't have an attorney, surprise, the defendant doesn't respect you very much.
A: If you have a lawyer that is a question you should ask your lawyer. However, it is common for lawyers, especially those representing insurance companies to object to most every question asked. It is how many lawyers "litigate". Most jurisdictions require a good-faith conference before filing a motion to compel better answers or overrule objections. The only way to beat this tactic is to take in front of the judge and prove that the answers or objections failed to answer the substance of the question and at times even can be sanctioned. If you're representing yourself. You should hire your own lawyer as you are not equipped to conduct this battle. They know that and will continue to file frivolous objections until properly challenged and if necessary sanctioned by a judge.
William John Light agrees with this answer
A: Hire a competent attorney. Best of luck.
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