Judge Berates Recruiter and Attorney for ‘Deplorable’ Discovery Conduct

A magistrate judge in Austin has ordered a legal recruiter and his attorney to show cause for why they should not be sanctioned for what he called “an abusive approach” to “scorched earth discovery tactics” in a trade secrets case.  

In a scathing, 19-page order issued Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin denied a slew of discovery-related motions brought by recruiter Evan Jowers and his Los Angeles-based attorney, Robert Tauler, related to an ongoing dispute between Jowers and Austin legal recruiter Robert Kinney. Judge Austin is giving Jowers and Tauler until Jan. 5 to brief him on why they should not be sanctioned for costs Kinney has incurred responding to their “baseless motions.”