Yeah as i said, thats only how stuff works within my legal system (a continental law legal system), and i just thought that there propably would be a similar rule within common law legal systems
If you're talking about actually filing something, then you're not entirely wrong. But we're just talking about a notice of appearance—a notice to the court and other parties that a specific lawyer is on file as representing the other party. That's just a procedural step that carries no substantive legal value, other than telling the other side and court whom to contact regarding filings, communications, etc.
He represents himself and does the bare minimum to waste Pxie's money: Pxie's GiveSendGo campaign suggests she'll need $200k for the full length of the lawsuit; she has just over a quarter of that. Destiny might think he can fumble through just enough filings that she burns through her legal fund until she's forced to settle for peanuts. Of course this assumes that her GiveSendGo money is the only money she has for legal fees, and that her lawyers are purely working on an hourly basis rather than on contingency. I could still plausibly see Destiny trying for this, though.
This is assuming she hasn't hired a lawyer on contingency. She'd probably need to put up some sort of basic retainer in the beginning, but the federal cause of action provides for attorney's fees. If I were a lawyer wanting to build my brand, I'd take on Pxie's case because: (1) if I win, I get my fees paid by the other side; (2) she can ask for a lot of money, both compensatory and punitive, which means I would get a portion of that money if I win; (3) it's not really that difficult of a case overall (some of the claims might get dismissed, but I would hazard she gets at least 2 of them past summary judgment), absent some secret facts that we don't know of (like unleaked message logs of Pxie indicating she's okay with him sharing her videos); and (4) the defendant is a controversial public figure involved in sex-related offenses and I can make a name for myself by winning a big case against that figure, all the while portraying myself as a vindicator of a legally-wronged woman. Destiny is a bad defendant and Pxie is a good plaintiff, just in terms of how they appear to the media, jury, etc.
It's a pretty good deal all around, especially with so few (known) factual disputes at play, and it would be foolish for Destiny to think he can run out Pxie's coffers when her attorneys are probably working on contingency. If someone told him this is a viable tactic, he's retarded for believing them.
There's just no way he walks into an attorney's office with his manifesto and a binder full of women who might follow up Pxie with accusations and that attorney, with full knowledge of what has happened and what might come next, signs a contract with him. I just can't see it unless it was well and truly the attorneys who defended Weinstein or Johnny Depp that he's going to retain.
Well, he can do this, and many attorneys would accept, if he's offering to pay for the headaches involved. Even with his lack of good faith and him digging himself into a deeper hole with that retarded manifesto stream, a lot of attorneys will just see it as a client who requires more work. More work means more billable hours, which results in them making more money.
The issue could be, as
@Latrell Sprewell said, that Destiny is being miserly with his legal defense. He could be bringing all of this to attorneys and finding their financial terms too harsh. Or maybe he could be asking them to make arguments that the factual record demonstrates are not true, and when they refuse to argue that he didn't do certain things despite him being on record as doing so, he spergs out and leaves. Maybe he approached attorneys and they're running what is effectively a background check on him to determine whether they should represent him, which might take a little while because it's Destiny who has a huge Internet footprint. Maybe an attorney in Miami doesn't want to represent the guy who laughs on stream at a Trump supporting firefighter getting shot and dying next to his family because it's an unneeded political headache in an increasingly republican area of the country.
Who knows? What we do know is that there is no legal advantage in not filing a notice of appearance, and the lack of that notice is very likely indicative of Destiny not having an attorney yet.
