A defensive motion can deepen an opponent’s commitment to a case.

Evidence

The next morning, Schlichtmann awoke without a thought of the Woburn case. It seemed to lie in a distant future. He still believed that he was merely Roisman’s local counsel. He didn’t realize then how large an investment Cheeseman’s motion had given him in Woburn. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 582

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how procedural attacks backfire by converting a peripheral lawyer into a fully invested protagonist — escalation as a self-inflicted wound.
• XREF: connects to: An adversary’s attacks can bind a lawyer to a case he meant to abandon — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action , 682; Preclusive self-defense can itself provoke the attack it tries to avert — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 461

Broader Connections

• An adversary’s attacks can bind a lawyer to a case he meant to abandon #corroborates (0.95) — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 682
• Preclusive self-defense can itself provoke the attack it tries to avert #complicates (0.75) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 461