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[ NNSquad ] Entertainment industry lawyers attack lawyer helping defendants 


> Entertainment industry lawyers attack lawyer helping defendants

> http://bit.ly/hMWHrI  (Escapist Magazine)

> I'm having trouble in my non-lawyer mind figuring out what the legal
> basis is for attacking a lawyer providing self-help documents.
> That it's costing the plaintiffs money seems like a "shucks, that's
> the way it goes" situation.  Anyone out there able to actually
> explain this in a way that makes sense?

This is the lawyerly equivalent of a SLAPP suit. They have a business model that involves baseless or questionable lawsuit, and depends on people not being able to afford to defend themselves. So when somebody provides a defense that can be used cheap, they object.

Since at least one of the defenses is valid, I don't think a Rule 11(*) filing will get them anything. They just hope to scare him off. I hope he gets sanctions against them.

(*) Against filing frivolous/groundless lawsuits, motions, or other process.