Neil Gorsuch’s Law Firm Years

In private practice, Neil Gorsuch once spent eight hours deposing a representative of an accounting firm who answered all Gorsuch’s questions with “I don’t know,” even though the witness — as a designated representative of the company — was supposed to know, recalled one of his colleagues.

Using those “I don’t knows” as evidence, Gorsuch later won a ruling in Virginia state court barring the company from presenting most of its arguments in the civil case, which was a dispute over a hotel deal in which Gorsuch represented Sir Bernard Ashley, co-founder of the fashion and home furnishings company Laura Ashley. ...