The amount of effort he is expending to not have to do this goes beyond simple laziness and incompetence. It has to be deliberate non compliance.
One can never underestimate how incompetent Greer is.
I think it's just a combination of minor hurdles, and a complete disinterest in overcoming them because it's Hardin who is poking him to do work. Russ only likes to do things that make him feel important: file threatening lawsuits, attend important "business meetings", advocate for sweeping legal changes,
creep on instathots recruit potential employees and advocates, have a woman submit to sucking him his penis, etc. For all his the bluster about hard work and overcoming, he doesn't actually have a work ethic; he only does what makes him feel good, and ignores the hard stuff that creates actual accomplishments.
That police complaint is probably vanilla plight-sperging, and Russ would have been perfectly happy to have the Court deliver it to Hardin, and be done with it. But that's not fun, and having the Court scold him at Hardin's request hurts his feelings. Then it gets worse--once they told him "this isn't how it works", every step of figuring it out is obnoxious, and he can't do it all from his couch on his iPhone, and now suddenly there's
fees involved? None of this is fun! It's all demeaning!
Russ would rather file garbage from his phone than do literally any other kind of effort or work. He's whining and filing and digging a hole because that
feels better than admitting Hardin had a point. Complying is an admission that Hardin won, so Russ
has to get something out of him, to save face in his internal hero's monologue.