Location: Washington and Oregon
So about a year ago, I (person A) was in a small incident at work with (person B). Person B sued and won but my insurance took care of it…. thats why you have them right!!!!! lol. Now about a year later Person B is suing the company for unsafe working conditions and not doing enough to prevent the incident from happening. ( i no longer work here do to moving 100 miles away) welp the owner(person C) and me are friends and he is actually renting out my house. Today the lawyer representing person B called and started asking questions. I told him “due to a conflict of interest i do not want to answer any questions unless i am legally obilgated to” he told me “we can get a subpoena if you want to do this the hard way or we can do this the easy way and you just answer some questions” i told him again “due to a conflict of interest i do not want to answer any questions unless i am legally obilgated to” he then said ” ok then we will make sure to subpoena you since you dont want to answer a couple of questions” I told him “ok i will conact my works law insurance so i can be ready for my next steps”. From here is was him asking about that and going down the same path of being very very aggressiave and threating. Also if it matters they are sueing for $425,000. Do you think they will actually go through with a subpoena? or more so just a scare tactic to try and get me to talk?
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I mean, if you’re a key witness it’s certainly possible be subpoena you. There’s no reason to think that the attorney is lying about that
Probably a scare tactic unless you the only one they can get answers from. But you played it right!
They’re in one state and you’re in a different one? That makes it less likely.
It’s probably BOTH a “scare tactic” AND he intends on serving you with a subpoena if you don’t “compromise or negotiate.” Lawsuits are horrible. Sometimes people think they have the “upper hand” until the opposing Attorney forces you to acknowledge his client has a position too. That’s when, for example, an opposing Attorney might not get around to filing necessary paperwork the day before a hearing because it took him all this time to realize the opposing Attorney/Client also has a legal position!
I Hope that makes sense. Just because you are friends with one legal party doesn’t mean the other legal party doesn’t have a case. My guess is that Judges do not view bullying tactics (2 vs. 1) very favorably.