The discovery stuff is a mixed bag. The Slatosch depo is somewhat frivolous, but that's firmly in a judge's discretion. Could go either way, although 0% chance that Lemoine gets sanctioned over it. The discovery requests aimed at Beard, personally, are nightmare territory problematic for several reasons, some of them bad enough that there is a real chance they are sanctionable. I don't know if Lemoine served the Beard discovery yet, but Martinez Hsu are going to have a heyday bouncing that one out of court.
As far as the bill, that's a huge nothingburger. You guys are just now discovering what lawyers do all day. It's a fucking desk job. We research, we read and summarize shit, we talk highly emotional clients off a cliff. Nothing I've seen so far would be non-billable to a private client, although the judge may quibble about how long things took. I expect the traditional 10-30% haircut off the top, depending on how much of it Beard is able to argue down in a 2-hour hearing.
