Sometimes I don't know what to think

A friend of mine is getting sued. She's getting sued because she declined to extend a contract that expired. Or more precisely, she only extended it 12 times, and then declined to extend it a 13th time. It's a nuisance lawsuit. They have no case. They thought they could scare her into capitulating - BOY did they ever back the wrong horse on that one - and now they can't pull out. She won't settle, because she knows she'll win in court. If they go to court and lose, they'll have to pay her (considerable) legal bills. If they have any brains, they are quaking in their boots because she is, bar none, the last person I would ever want to back into a corner. Nothing brings out her steely, resolute calm like facing down a bully.

Meanwhile, they all spend hours in a tiny room, listening to depositions. I don't envy the opposing counsel. My friend recounted that at one point, the opposing counsel asked her what she was told, by a certin subject-matter expert, about how long a specific process would likely take. She replied, 12 months. He repeated this question four different ways. Then he showed her an email between herself and the Subject Matter Expert, in which SME explained that Part A of the process would take about 6 months, and Part B of the process would also take about 6 months.

"Does seeing this email cause you to want to change your previous answer?" he leered triumphantly.

She looked at him in genuine bafflement. "No...because 6 plus 6...is 12?"

I don't understand why anyone would want to work this way, I truly don't. When I think of what better things could be done with the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees that will get spent on this case...it just burns me up.