Evidently some lawyers and litigants don’t understand what it means to be “on the record” during a deposition. Either that or they don’t mind being caught saying or doing something untoward, ridiculous or downright horrible.

Every year stories surface of lawyers and witnesses lobbing insults—or nearby objects—at each other during depositions when things get contentious. Although 2016 was an outlier in many ways, it followed suit when it came to lawyers and litigants behaving badly.