I made some very standard, fully defensible, strictly factual consumer reports online about a small business that ripped me off. Then I got a threatening cease and desist letter from a DLA Piper attorney listing his home address and personal email. LinkedIn reveals he’s spent his career in a very niche area of corporate law, nothing related to defamation, so he’s probably just doing a family member a favor. My understanding is BigLaw often strictly prohibits unapproved outside legal moonlighting. Can anybody tell me how common that is at DLA Piper, and if they’d find out if he was taking to the courts repping non-company clients? I’m not going to inform the company (I’m not a life ruiner nor do I need to incur the wrath of a wealthy litigator), but I want to understand the veracity of his threats. If he’d never go to court cuz the company would fine out and fire him, he’s basically toothless and I’ll sleep better without deleting my reports as he demanded.