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David vs. Goliath: Don't piss off the little guy
I've just finished skimming the most remarkable, unputdownable and yet
enormously tedious legal account I've read in many a year. Hank
Mishkoff is a web designer in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, who
ran afoul of a local mall developer over a website he created to
celebrate the mall they were building in his neighborhood. Some
combination of corporate hubris and overzealous legal counsel got him
threatened and then sued over
his innocuous website
and then again as he
documented his legal
battles. It's a story of arrogant, greedy, duplicitous and
ultimately incompetent lawyers, a cautionary tale for any client who
doesn't keep a close eye on their legal representation. And it's a
cheer for the little guy who refuses to give up, even when his own
best interest and good sense tell him to.