What is the test for establishing that a new counsel is not required to conduct additional discovery?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Alvarado Orthopedic Research, L.P. v. Linvatec Corp., Civil No. 11cv0246 IEG(RBB) (S.D. Cal. 2012):
"This court adheres to the widely followed principle that '[t]he arrival of new counsel . . . does not entitle parties to conduct additional discovery or otherwise set aside valid and binding orders of the court, regardless of the efficacy of any new strategy counsel seeks to follow.'" Harshaw v. Bethany Christian
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