In theory (mine
) high-powered or at least highly-competent attorneys will always appear to sympathize with their clients, but they do not allow their clients to openly argue with them or ignore their instructrions, let alone take over control of the proceedings!
All of this is for their client's own good, as well as for the attorney's own self-respect and reputation.
Somewhere during part 1 of her deposition, I started expecting BC to make some excuse to ask for a brief time out so that he could get Cindy alone and warn her to knock it the h@ll off or plan on finding a new attorney. When he started gently rubbing her shoulder, all I could think was, "A good attorney would have squeezed just hard enough to cut off the blood flow as his final warning."
I have a feeling that in BC, Cindy has found herself another nice guy, but a weak guy she can control. As a result she was able to make a fool of herself and a fool of him, too.