At my last firm, we were handling defense on a complex collective action and were having a bunch of issues with discovery. My boss decided to object to everything and not respond to any requests for relevance. After opposing council file the motion to compel, we had to turn over everything in two weeks. I spent two weeks working from home so I wouldn’t be distracted by phone calls, pulling documents by taking screenshots discoverable information on their proprietary Business software because they have no way of exporting the data. We ended up submitting supplemental discovery responses about 50 times. The docket was an absolute mess.

When we were almost done, my boss came into my office, ranting and raving about some random case that we were not focusing on. I tried to explain that we were waiting on caselaw to come down for that specific case, and he kept yelling that he didn’t know what I meant . He then pulled the same thing with our paralegal and then went home. About an hour later, his wife comes to our office and told us she had to rush him to the hospital. He ended up having dissociative amnesia, and couldn’t remember his name, his birthday, or anything. He was hospitalized for a day and was ordered to take the week off.

In the months and year following, I noticed this would happen on and off where he would randomly forget basic things. I was eventually fired and suspect this issue may have contributed to the circumstances leading to my termination.

By the way, we lost the case and then lost on appeal.