1942bull
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Attorney's have to be careful with filing overtly frivolous lawsuits, however. They are professionally obligated to do enough research to ensure any case they may file actually has some merit. If they don't, they can be censured (or whatever it's called for attorneys) and if it continues, they can be disbarred.
Agree re the obligation, but I see little policing of the offenders. I spent 15 years doing expert witness work in federal courts on the copyright area. I saw many frivolous suits but never saw an attorney get censured or sanctioned.