I can't help myself and have to speculate how to reverse UNO this: Basically the scam works because as a "defender" in this legal attack our plucky founder has

I can't help myself and have to speculate how to reverse UNO this: Basically the scam works because as a "defender" in this legal attack our plucky founder has to do a good and expensive job defending himself while the ass-tacker knowing he has no hope of winning can do a crappy bad job just dragging stuff out. The business relationship they had gives this probably enough of a cover to not get tossed out right away. Since generally in the US each party pays their own expenses this works for ass-tacker. Now if you turn this around simply pay ass-tacker what he asked for then sue him for having done a bad job on the sale he had no part in but invoiced you for. Since ass-tacker now needs to defend he has to spend money disproportionately. There have to be legal firms that do this service for you.