If it wasn’t bad enough for TD Bank N.A. that in January a Florida jury found it liable for its role in the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme, in August the judge sanctioned the bank for discovery abuses. And she found particular fault with the in-house lawyers.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke sanctioned the bank along with its outside counsel for what she called “a pattern of discovery abuses before, during, and after trial.” Following hearings in May and June, she reserved her harshest criticism for in-house lawyers who failed to produce all relevant documents and hid information from trial counsel at Greenberg Traurig.
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