Back at the dawn of time, he was sued. His first lawyer successfully defended him, and sent him a bill. He did not pay the bill, so his first lawyer obtained a judgment against him.
Many years later he tried to have that judgment set aside. He hauled the matter through a few appeal courts, where he consistently lost on both the merits and on limitations periods – in fact there are costs awards outstanding against him from these appeals. I was hired by the first lawyer to handle the appeals, so to put it mildly, he does not like me.
His second lawyer sent him a bill after acting for him in the appeals, and is now suing him for alleged non-payment. He is counterclaiming against his second lawyer for alleged misrepresentation. In this action he has third partied me for allegedly making fraudulent statements to the courts in the appeals, although he has not set out which courts and what statements.
He has also third partied his first lawyer, and third partied a third lawyer to whom there is no connection at all, other than that I have also represented the third lawyer in an entirely unrelated matter, and the first and third lawyers once were partners in the same law office.
These sort of allegations are not surprising, for he has made so many allegations against so many lawyers and judges over the years that a couple of the appeal courts had to fly in judges from about a thousand miles away, and my keeping track of all the allegations took a small print, point form, 11” by 17” spreadsheet. He seems to be fixated on lawyers and judges.
I think smiling bandit has properly described where the case is going. The only question is how many appeals he will try this time.
Nah. It would cover non-fraudulent mistakes that hurt one’s own client, but would not cover being sued by the other side for doing a good job and repeatedly beating the other side.
Nuisance suits come with the job. No big deal – just a minor embuggerance to be dealt with. But a million dollars! What a hoot!
