[qingcharles]

A friend of a friend asked me to look at a debt collection case a year or so ago. I pulled all the records, in-person only (Cook County, their records system is fucked for both civil and criminal). Immediately I see the service wasn't right (somewhere the defendant didn't live). The attorney who filed the case (and 900 others in the same courthouse) was a ghost. Google returns zero results for their name. Their listed address on their filings was basically a closet in a suburb. Their bar records show they have practiced for 30 years without leaving a single mark online. When I got hold of them on the phone and they realized I was onto them they said they would only communicate by fax and no other method. Thank the lord for free online fax gateways. Sent fax. Three days later, case dismissed.