Apparently he didn't stand up or do much the first hearing. I'm not sure if this was prelim where they went over the evidence, if there was another lawyer there from the firm doing most of the talking or what but Beard apparently never did anything respectful or standard for a lawyer sitting in and tried to speak up in the end.
my coworker is the clerk for our little district court, and she's serious on how lawyers (or people being their own lawyers) should act, and how they should respect the judge, etc
I worked as a clerk for the DA's office. Some judges are super rough on lawyers who don't go with protocol. You stand when you're supposed to, you introduce yourself, you don't just sit there and wait to the end to try and do your job.
I have to assume someone was speaking for the firm there the whole time but Beard should have done something to show he wasn't just a client too sitting there.
Okay, it looks like they are talking about the confidentiality order and the judge is letting them explain why twitter, youtube and all this stuff is a factor. Beard let another associate talk out the entire thing with the judge and interjected at the end and got mocked a little.
Yeah. The judge basically wanted them to say "we're fighting for damages" because if they want to pretend to be the nice guys there's no reason to take it to court.
I guess Beard was arguing "no confidentiality means they can get all the evidence and documents, have the case dismissed, then do what they want with them hurting Vic more."
/sideeyes the hell out of Renfamous on principle, though-