There is likely not one plaintiff’s civil litigator who has not been threatened with sanctions by their adversary counsel. Indeed, in this author’s legal malpractice focus, there isn’t an attorney liability action initiated that does not immediately receive a sanctions threat in retort.

Most sanctions threats are themselves unfounded, procedurally defective or otherwise premature. That said, all sanctions threats should be taken seriously.

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