Law office lawsuit and retaliation

I have a client that we rebuilt their website and in the few weeks that we did not have the proper cookie consent system set up, a law firm Mou Law (in Anaheim) sued them. This law firm is a serial "suer". They have a few people 100s of miles from where we are that test websites and file lawsuits. My research says they often lose, but usually extort money from people who are freaked out. They are asking for $70,000 from a single contractor (small time) for using the Facebook Pixel and not having the proper cookie or GTM pixel deployment properly. I am doing the research now to beat them (thank you Manus) by finding all the times they have lost (several).

Separate from that, I want to punish these people! They scam small business owners out of $100,000s (or millions combined) in money. They scare people with these bogus claims.

The law firm is Mou Law. Mou Law PC / Attebery / Hill

Attebery & Hill are 2 serial plaintiffs that file tons of cases. They are the supposed victims of trying to use a website 100s of miles from where they live. Stacy Hill (the Hill plaintiff) primarily focuses on contractors of different sizes (mostly small, b/c legal cost is similar to what they want to settle for).

Any suggestions on how (beyond me helping my client, which my lawyer (who I paid $3k) told me NOT do do...distance yourself from them was their advice) to truly punish these people and their dirty deeds? I want to do it legally! I have some ideas, but would LOVE to hear from this group.

BTW, do a little research if you are in (or representing someone in) the U.S. and specifically California (sue happy capital of the world) in having the proper cookie and ADA scripts and functionality deployed (if you care about your clients). My research has found that there are a handful of lawyers filing TONS of these suits, and guess what, a handful of lawyers that will fight them, conveniently for the same amount that the first lawyer is suing for = total scam and disgusting IMO.

Attorney here.

Unfortunately, behaviors like you described are very common in many fields. You will often see serial plaintiffs filings lawsuits against brick and mortar businesses, claiming inaccessibility for handicap individuals.

Another popular example are companies who purchase right to porn movies and then go after people torrent these videos illegally. Most people prefer to settle out of embarrassment rather than have on the public record their association with porn.

You can try contacting the California bar and report the law firm for unethical behavior. Although, to be honest, it’s very unlikely that something will come out of it (unless you can prove that the lawfirm is manufacturing the “incidents”).

The legislator purposely designed the law to give people incentives to seek out infringing companies. Bad actors are abusing it, but is legal. A great example that not everything that is legal is also moral.

Thank you for your response! I used Gemini + Manus + Claude to find all the open cases from this law firm and their serial plaintiffs. I also found all the times they lost due to demurrer. I found the lawyer that beat them several times.

I sent all of this to my client. They hired a different lawyer who honestly seems completely inept in this field. He did not file demurrer (even though that is how everyone else had "won") and now is looking to go after me.

We inherited the website and added the cookie notice eventually, but it was (being honest) not super high on our list for a local painter.

Totally sucks!