Michael Hiltzik: A lawyer tried to win his case with obscene insults. It only infuriated the judge
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Dec 17, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Lawyers owe their clients zealous advocacy, the bar canons say. But here's an attorney who squeezed zealous until it was screaming for mercy - and ended up losing his clients and gaining a harsh rebuke from a federal judge.
The attorney is Christopher Hook of Culver City, who has been practicing law for 12 years. The judge is Otis Wright II of Los Angeles, who was having none of it.
During the negotiation phase of a dispute between his clients and Allstate Insurance Co., Hook peppered Allstate's lawyers with increasingly obscene taunts, homophobic slurs and
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