I'll say it again - this is not actual legal advice.
But. You know how sometimes you want to just pull an ostrich and ignore something in the hopes that it will go away? And how that usually just results in you being eaten by a metaphoric lion?
Apparently that is actually a sound legal strategy! No joke. Filling lawsuits is annoying. And with a little perseverance and filling know how, you can probably annoy the other side into just giving up. Even if you lose the actual case, they have to go through even more annoying stuff to get the court to make you pay or do whatever it is your supposed to. Sure, if they ever do manage to slog through it all, or have a rotating supply of fresh student attorneys to do it for the client or otherwise can manage to do something to make the court make you do something, you may end up in a less than good situation. But all in all, ignoring it is a wonderful defense strategy.
And that's one of the things I've learned from clinic (well, that I can blog about with breaking various ethics rules. Sometimes when I'm bored/nerdy I play a game where I imagine something I'd like to do or say, and the try to figure out how many ethical rules I'm breaking. It's always a little disturbing when I come up with something particularly gnarly and then realize that it is apparently perfectly ethical. Ah law.)
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