Jack, I pretty much agree with what you've said. However, I don't believe the advice to hang in there and not allow himself to be bullied by someone is mere cheerleading or impotent Sixties rhetoric. One of the ways attorneys work (and some of my best friends are attorneys, honestly, so this isn't a smear of the legal eagles) is to bluff and pressure the opposition into dancing to your tune as early as possible.

We/he may need to comply at some point and in some form or other, but I say the demand that he send them the entire database so they can pick out the pieces of it they want to object to is outrageous and shouldn't be negotiated. I may be wrong on this, but I think THEY should be the ones to come up with specific "charges" rather than sweeping in and telling him that he has to present them with a menu.

Just my thoughts at the moment.

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