Sometimes a dispute can go beyond the legal limits, accompanied by a basic physical showdown. But our task is never to provoke conflict, merely to use any provocation by the enemy against him.

For example, supposing you’re a chain of shopping and leisure centres, and your opponent is a large bank of the occupying country. It just so happens that you once took out a loan of about 100 million dollars from this bank. As a civilised European partner, you have fulfilled all the conditions of the loan. But then the not so civilised, and not entirely European bank takes hold of the reins, refusing to extend the loan period and initiating a repayment procedure.

Justice, in the form of a rather odious judge, is blind as it should be. But for some reason only when it’s looking at your arguments. For the other side of the conflict, her eyes and her pockets are wide open. As a result of this “opthalmological paradox”, a ruling is made to block your accounts. The activity of all the centres is stopped, so there’s no income, taxes aren’t being paid, people are getting fat... well, it is what it is, hopelessness sets in. But it’s not completely terrible! Because the “completely terrible” bit starts when this half-blind half-justice entity decides to start charging you a huge sum of money that you’ve never even had.

UNDERDOG knows how to deal with “completely terrible”. We remember that, since 2015, anyone who has previously declared such intentions, can make a video recording of any court proceedings. We then pay persistent attention to the judge, sending activists with equipment to every one of her sessions. These guys not only film it, they stream it on YouTube too. And for this heroine of our courtroom romance, being streamed all over the Internet is a bit creepy.

Making an effort to achieve a rapprochement in our relations with this judge, our creative team prepares a list of all cases pending to be examined by her. All 150(!) of these lawsuits then include requests for video of the proceedings. The judge puts up with this for 2 days, and on the 3rd day goes on sick leave, after only managing to deal with a few cases. Our proceedings were then transferred to another judge. An honest one? Hmm... Well it’s our court, so we just keep working.

We compile a list of all claims initiated by this bank against Ukrainian borrowers, taking advantage of the court's suspicious loyalty. The dates and times of the sessions are then made known to the concerned public, and within a month there are activists at these sessions, expressing their indignation quite vigorously. To put it mildly, this does significantly complicate the work of the judiciary, or rather, brings it to a standstill.

The opponent makes a retaliatory move that is quite in keeping with his style: some hired thugs beat up activists and destroy their equipment. What the aggressor bank was not expecting was an escalation of the conflict at public level. The resonance reaches such a level that the court retreats from its policy of aiding the aggressor. The bankers asked to take their chance at the negotiating table and the conflict was settled with mutually beneficial terms. Thus we used this unplanned complication as a weapon against a dirty player. As they say: “He who brings the sword, shall fall by the sword...”

Underdog

CASES

OR WHICH CONFLICTS OUR CLIENTS HAVE WON

HOW WE STOPPED A $10,000,000 BANK ROBBERY

SO WE GOT A LOT OF MONEY AND DID NOTHING FOR IT!

OPPOSING THE STATE IS NOT OPPOSING SOCIETY

PLANT MANAGEMENT ACCUSED OF TERRORISM IN ORDER TO BE PAID OFF WITH A “BRIEFCASE”

WARNING! ALWAYS BE MORE CAREFUL THAN YOUR OPPONENT

FIGHTING THE AGGRESSOR

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