With over four hundred and twenty employees, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP (BHFS) is one of the largest law firms in the western United States, yet it has leveraged its considerable resources not to uphold the law, but to silence, suppress, and retaliate against me—a self-represented litigant and whistleblower attempting to hold their client, Shein, accountable.

As the Founding Partner of BHFS, Norman Brownstein bears ultimate responsibility for the actions of attorneys under his leadership, including those engaged in the coordinated efforts to suppress my constitutional rights. Rather than intervening to correct or prevent misconduct, Brownstein has allowed — and by inaction, endorsed — a pattern of legal abuse and retaliation against me.

Rather than litigate in good faith, BHFS has acted as the central legal weapon in a broader enterprise to obstruct my speech, derail my litigation, and destroy my public reputation. Through its attorneys—Eric Walther, Madyson Bathke, as well as Morgan Pietz—BHFS has engaged in a coordinated campaign of fraud, retaliation, and suppression.

Under Brownstein ’s leadership, BHFS attorneys have:

• Filed knowingly false declarations and motions intended to mislead courts and undermine my legal filings,

• Attempted to influence multiple judges through off-the-record communications and improper filings,

• Enabling unauthorized legal practice (via Morgan Pietz before pro hac vice status),

• And weaponizing anti-SLAPP procedure to chill valid claims and shield unlawful conduct.

• Orchestrated a campaign of digital suppression, by working in concert with outside parties (including Shein and Name.com) to takedown my protest websites without due process or lawful justification.

This is not routine defense litigation. It is institutionalized abuse of the legal process to insulate corporate clients from accountability by targeting, silencing, and discrediting a protected whistleblower. As such, BHFS is not only vicariously liable through its attorneys but directly liable as a knowing participant in a pattern of racketeering and unethical conduct.

Despite my direct notices and public filings documenting this misconduct, Benson has taken no steps to investigate or correct these abuses, signaling either deliberate indifference or active complicity. His silence has functioned as protection for attorneys engaging in what I believe to be civil rights violations, abuse of process, and acts of digital censorship in retaliation for my protected speech and lawful court activity.

By failing to uphold the ethical standards expected of a managing partner, Richard Benson has become an enabler of a broader scheme to obstruct justice and suppress dissent, and should be held accountable alongside those acting under his authority.