Our sister blog, Employment & Labor Insider has once again been named by the American Bar Association as one of the top 100 Blawgs out of 4000. Robin Shea is the Blawg Editor and primary author who entertains, informs and provides common sense employment law insight every Friday without fail. She has also been a great mentor to me - a more novice blogger - and our great team of FOCUS ...

I do not consider myself to be a confrontational person.  Maybe that sounds like a paradox coming from a lawyer, but I suspect I may not be the only one in my profession who feels this way. To me, making persuasive legal arguments is fun, but getting yelled at or antagonized by a not-so-nice opposing counsel really stresses me out.

I get that this is often the goal of these sorts of tactics ...