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Originally Posted by pornlaw
You dont need to hire an attorney from the same town. Any attorney in the state can practice in any state court or even an attorney from out of state can be admitted to practice in a different state for a limited purpose such as defending a local lawsuit.
Im General Counsel to a few corps in porn and I will either handle local cases myself or find a local attorney to handle the case and then supervise their work.
Two weeks ago I had to find a local attorney in Seattle to handle a litigation case while I was in Italy.
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As for not fighting it, yeah it becomes the 1.7 million dollar question
To fight this from Australia, as a company, I really needed an Australian lawyer, which I have but you cant just use any Lawyer, you need one that's Schooled on Australian and American law.
Those guys are big bucks! But you have to pay because my interest is how I can be charged in Australia despite what went on in the USA.
The first thing I'm presented with is a disclaimer, saying they are not liable for any information they give me. And the reason for that is I need a specialist in Australian and West Virginian law and at that time there was NO ONE in Australia offering that service.
There advise then was wait until she trys and brings Judgment to Australia, and we can try and fight it then. But there's no guarantees there either.
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I researched the city where the charges had been laid and online I could only find two local law companies, however the person doing the Suing seemed to of worked at both and as I later learned had also worked as an intern for the Judge.
I guess I could of gotten an out of town lawyer to appear, just understand it was a trail by Jury, the trial took 7 days, it could of taken several weeks.
The costs involved in even considering that were astronomical.
Then consider I had a text link on a webpage, it had made me NO profit, it was uploaded and made by someone else, just happened to be sitting on my server. The link was removed immediately on notification, I was fully contactable via whois information. I operate as a company.. She sued me and the company and won 850k each... for a text link, that had never made myself or company a cent.
My replies in this thread were based on most of the replies/ comments being "ignore it" and using myself and an example as to why maybe you shouldn't ignore it."
My comments are also made while I'm Thailand/ China, for any "other" lawyers who may be reading ;)