The attorneys defending Mike Lindell and his business against defamation claims from voting machine companies are seeking to sever ties with the “MyPillow Guy” over millions of dollars in unpaid legal fees.

In a court filing Thursday, the law firm of Parker Daniels Kibort LLC said Lindell and MyPillow are months behind on their legal bills in three defamation cases, and they can no longer afford to represent him.

“At this time, Defendants are in arrears by millions of dollars to PDK,” the filing said. “PDK is a small litigation and trial firm in Minneapolis, MN and cannot afford to finance Defendants’ defense in the Litigations.”

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At the very least after the first few ten thousand dollars of unpaid bills I would stop working. But there may be other considerations.

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It’s pretty common for corporate stuff (legal or otherwise) to start with no payment changing hands, just a contract. Then an invoice lands either monthly or on completion afterwards.

That makes it easier for the work to actually start (otherwise you need to engage the finance dept up front and they’re often slow), and once the contract is signed and the work started that’s the sales process complete.

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It’s common, but it’s also common to require payment up front or refuse service to businesses with bad credit and/or financial reputation.

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Yes but the retainer is not millions of dollars. I engage a number of firms at any one time and the largest retainer I’ve ever had was $10k.

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It’s common, but probably shouldn’t be for these right wing grifters. Or just grifters in general. If you know someone is trying to start some idealogical bullshit in order to satisfy a personal grievance, you can just kind of assume that you’re not getting paid.

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Maybe that’s the point.

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Ive needed lawyers for family shit and it was always paid up front. Idk how these guys are getting a fresh dollar worth of work without compensation.

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Same way banks work, when you owe them 30,000 and can’t pay, you’re fucked. When you owe them 100 million they’re fucked.

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The only time I didn’t pay a lawyer up front was to represent me on contingency and they’d take a percentage of the settlement. No fucking way a lawyer would just represent me without a retainer in any other kind of trial (unless they were pro bono).

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Agreed, but it’s hard to feel bad for people with no morals. ’ I will absolutely represent this delusional shitbag, if the money is right’ should not be a thing.

Hopefully it sinks all of them. It won’t of course, the lawyers will be fine, their interns might be laid off, MyDildo has already been abandoned by his hero. Nothing changes.

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I understand the moral outrage, but remember that our laws guarantee everyone the right to effective legal counsel—even shitty, guilty people. For this reason, I think one has to give some pause before judging lawyers who defend obviously shitty/guilty clients. I saw an expose once on a hated defense lawyer who almost always took cases wherein the defendant was obviously guilty and had virtually no shot at trial due to overwhelming evidence. He maintained he took the clients in question specifically because he felt everyone deserved the right to a decent lawyer and this class of people are often shunned by attorneys who prioritize their win/lose ratio.

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An attorney is only guaranteed on criminal cases where you don’t have the funds to pay for one.

For civil cases, you have to represent yourself or hire an attorney.

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Hopefully it will put scumbag lawyers like this out of business.

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For some of these firms it’s free press, even if their client is a deadbeat or just plain old ridiculous.

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For some of these firms it’s free press, even if their client is a deadbeat or just plain old ridiculous.

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How the fuck do you end up owing millions of dollars to lawyers after 2-3 years? And at some point he was paying them so I don’t even want to know what the total has been

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I don’t remember those exact amount but I’m pretty sure Dominion is suing him for a whole lot more than that

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He’s a grift cow. He’s been repeatedly hit up by grifters to fund stupid stuff.

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They’re likely accruing debt on a bonded injunction or something similar though a couple million on a case this large and public over years isn’t uncommon.

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You can’t convince me this fucker isn’t back on the crack.

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This election stuff is his current crack.

He took a hotshot of Trump.

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Yep. Some people just have an addictive personality and need to be addicted to something. Eminem talked about it when he first got clean. He was saying how he replaced his addiction for drugs with running. Said he would run for several miles every single day.

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Also, his pillows suck. I just felt the need to add that.

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His lumpy pillows.

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That makes you an asshole.

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I like that someone on the IntarWebz called him “Deposition Karen”.

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That’s what I hate about how everyone calls him “the MyPillow Guy” it’s free advertising even if no one likes him.

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I like “Mike Pillow”, personally.

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I was gifted one of his pet blankets for Christmas. Those suck too. My dog gets static electric zaps every morning.

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I really hope all of these high profile right wing types follow Trump’s lead. All of them having crappy lawyers would be fitting.

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They’re not used to criminal lawyers. They’re used to criminal lawyers. They have no concept of how a legitimate justice system is supposed to work.

As soon as they can’t intimidate or “whack” a judge, juror, or opponent they go deer in headlights. You can’t blame them really. Their money has shielded them through decades without consequence.

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These people never had whack a judge power, at best they have here’s a hundred thousand you didn’t see anything money. That’s a big difference and one arguably isn’t power just influence that can be switched by offering them slightly more.

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