Meet the Commercial Litigators Attorney in San Francisco, California
Meet John-Paul S. Deol
Meet John-Paul S. Deol
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so I started my career here at Dillon
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law group doing mostly plaintiffs work
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and after a couple of years I went on to
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a couple of big firms doing exclusively
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defense work so I am one of the unique
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employment lawyers who has experience on
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both sides of the aisle so to speak what
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that brings to my practice is
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essentially if I’m representing a
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plaintiff I know what the other side is
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thinking I’ve been on the other side
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I’ve spoken to the in-house counsel I’ve
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spoken to the HR professionals and if
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there’s insurance involved I’ve dealt
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with them too so I know what each one of
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those let’s say stakeholders are
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thinking and how they’re approaching the
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case from the defense perspective if I’m
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representing a defendant
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I’ve also represented plaintiffs so I
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know what plaintiffs are thinking I know
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what they want I know what kinds of
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things they’re gonna ask for and I know
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what kinds of evidence they may or may
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not have and so when I’m approaching a
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case whether it’s plaintiffs or defense
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side I know what the other side is
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thinking what they’re planning and I can
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anticipate that in a unique way that I
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don’t think many attorneys can who only
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do one side or the other
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so the one piece of advice I always give
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to clients is be careful with documents
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and I really mean three things by that
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one is if you’re an employee for example
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don’t take documents and data you’re not
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supposed to have from your employer
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regardless of who you are an employer or
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an employee be careful what you put in
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documents and that includes text
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messages it includes emails letters
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which are less common these days because
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eventually those will come out and you
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don’t want to put anything I’ll use the
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term incriminating loosely but you don’t
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want to put anything incriminating or
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that might hurt you later
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in documents that will inevitably come
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out in litigation and the last thing
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I’ll say is be very careful how you keep
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documents documents are often lost in
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almost every case I have documents by
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one side of the other are lost and so
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it’s very important to make sure that
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you’re doing everything you can to
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preserve documents and data that may be
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relevant to your case so that means
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suspending email deletion that may be
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automatic and it certainly means don’t
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do any deletion or other destruction
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intentionally
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San Francisco, CA litigation attorney John-Paul S. Deol talks about his background & experience and shares his most common advice to clients.
