The shocking thing is that Ty wasn't outmanuevered in TCPA law by tCpA eXpErT Lemwaaah. This is a case of fumbling at the five yard line. Even more, Ty regularly deals with money that makes the 1-5 million Vic was suing for look like pocket change. You'd think he would be more careful not to make procedural fuck ups,
I honestly think this is why. Putting aside that these mistakes
still should not have cost him the case because even with
all of them there still should be sufficient evidence to overcome a TCPA if only from the defense's own filings (and the court has eyes and can see the filings even if they were messed up and could have used its own discretion to include them anyway if it were absolutely necessary) - it has been pointed out multiple times. Ty is a big business lawyer. He's involved with big business disputes. Vic's lawsuit was chump change to him - that doesn't mean he didn't care, but I do think it means he considered it to be essentially child's play. Especially since it was a fairly easy stage of 'prove any damage whatsoever happened to a man who lost everything directly because of this'. Rather than being incompetent, the problem with Ty is the same reason why minimum wage jobs don't hire ex-CEOs. Ty was essentially overqualified for the position.
Before you laugh so hard that you can no longer see the screen: I'm not trying to cope with this statement. I'm just saying that - by all accounts - the strategies and techniques you employ with high power multi-million dollar mergers and lawsuits where every lawyer involved knows each other's families and have regularly dealt with each other in previous cases and are expected to continue to do so in the future - likely even recommend future clients to each other - and where the clients behind those do not
literally hate each other but really just want to continue with their lives and have everyone make money (like Ty kept saying) are
vastly different than what went down here. There were no gentlemen's agreements, the defense kept doing everything possible to surprise and trap Vic in the proceedings, and essentially acted like a deranged animal. I would argue the reason why Sam did so well comparatively is because as a 'strip mall lawyer' he probably takes on criminal cases, and this felt very adjacent to one in the behavior of the parties involved.
I'm not saying that Ty was so big brain that the puny courts couldn't keep up with his brilliance, I'm just saying that I
think the issue is really that 'in the cases Ty is accustomed with dealing with, these kinds of blunders don't really mean anything because the parties involved are not benefited in any meaningful way by being petty enough for it to matter'. The solution IMO would have been for Ty to recognize much more quickly that this kind of hostile lawsuit was not his expertise and get someone who it was to oversee the filings and big decisions, rather than handling it himself until it blew up in his face.
Granted, I still don't believe that the end result would be any different, because I think Ty's blunders have always simply been the convenient excuse the court uses to not deal with what they think is an inherently frivolous lawsuit, and if they were gone the court would have used something else, but as far as 'how could Ty have been this bad at his job when he's supposedly such a high-powered lawyer', I think it's that. Personally.
