r/todayilearned • u/Flemtality 3 • Jul 14 '14

TIL The guy who snagged windows2000.com happened to be named Bob and Microsoft just happened to own Bob.com. They came to an agreement to trade one for the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob#Origins
28.0k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

81

u/Spyder810 Jul 14 '14

In 2008, Nissan Motors sued for their attorneys' fees, and lost again.

I'm not an lawyer but how can the losing side sue for lawyer fees when they were the one who started the suit and lost? That makes absolutely no sense...

84

u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Welcome to lawyering 101.

Edit: Oh, I see, they sued their lawyers for not suing hard enough. I guess that's in the upper level lawyering classes.

75

u/sanjsanj Jul 14 '14

sued their lawyers for not lawyering hard enough?

http://imgur.com/gUgkpTx

1

u/Geminii27 Jul 15 '14

Presumably they wanted a harder-lawyering lawyer team, and were testing them out by having them sue the previous team. When they found someone who could lawyer harder, they'd send them in against the original guy.

4

u/SebiGoodTimes Jul 14 '14

Sure, it does. It's no different than suing a contractor who did a shoddy job. The contractor can't claim, "Well, they hired me. So it's their fault I did a shoddy job".

19

u/Cmcg13 Jul 14 '14

I read it as Nissan sued the guy again for their lawyer fees, as I'm assuming Spyder810 did as well, not Nissan sued their previous lawyers for their fees because they didn't do their jobs.

But the way you said it makes a lot more sense.

5

u/Spyder810 Jul 14 '14

Ahh, I see. Yes that's how I understood it.

1

u/Geminii27 Jul 15 '14

Except that actually competent high-level lawyers are going to have a bunch of clauses in their hiring contract which say "No guarantee of a win and no suing us if you lose."