Days after the first General Motors Co. ignition-switch case collapsed midtrial in New York, Robert Hilliard, the lead plaintiff’s attorney, reflected on what went wrong — and what lessons he learned.
The credibility of Hilliard’s client, Robert Scheuer of Oklahoma, came under attack after GM’s lawyers obtained evidence of a fabricated check and other materials that conflicted with his trial testimony. “It goes under the secret lies of people,” Hilliard told The National Law Journal last week. “You do everything you can to learn everything you can, and if they’re determined not to be forthright, sometimes you just can’t discover it.”
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