The lead plaintiff’s attorney in a suit over a 2012 train derailment and chemical leak in Paulsboro was ordered off the case midtrial after he admitted to coaching his client’s testimony.
U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler of the District of New Jersey told attorney Mark Cuker, of Williams, Cuker & Berezofsky in Philadelphia, to leave the courtroom Jan. 28 after he conceded that he told his client he would touch his eyeglasses if she began to ramble while on the witness stand, according to the trial transcript.
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