PPJ Healthcare Enterprises Inc (PPJE)

[Ed the Trader]

Clearly, the two attorneys are in battle about a number of things. That is business. It is not personal. They could still be friends, and still would be interacting in the manner cited in your referenced e-mail message when business requires it.

However, a friendship is not required for one professional to offer professional courtesy to another.

If you have ever quit from a white-collar, salaried job where you hated your boss, you would still normally provide two weeks advance notice because that is just what is expected for professional courtesy.

Likewise, if you have ever been fired from a white-collar, salaried job, even if they had security walk you out the door at that moment, standard professional courtesy is that you will receive two weeks pay after you are fired.

This is no different. You don't have to be friends with someone, or even like them, to offer professional courtesy. It is just how people at that level of work treat each other.

It is disturbing that Hemming (PPJ's attorney) dropped the ball on getting witnesses scheduled for Arnaiz's discovery process (Arnaiz is Grewal's attorney). That was a major screw up on the part of Hemming, to the point that if Arnaiz wanted to do it, he could have locked all of PPJ's expert witnesses out of the trial, and that probably would have effectively killed their lawsuit entirely. Again, you will note here that Arnaiz extended professional courtesy to Hemming, and allowed him the opportunity to correct the manner. I expect that every attorney sometimes overlooks a dateline, and they all know this, and cut each other some slack, even when it would have been to the best interest of their client not to do it.

Lawyers conduct themselves in a completely different manner than some blue-collar guy you would bump into at a tavern. This will go against the gut instincts of much of what "normal" people would expect.