Are you kidding me?!
Thomas Panas is in San Mateo county, working (presumably) for a tech company making nearly $20,000/month in salary, another $26,000/month in commissions/bonuses, and getting additional stock grants worth over $120,000 in the first three months of the year. In short, he's rich.
But he's also engaged in contentious divorce proceedings with his ex-wife over child support obligations for his two children (over whom they share custody 50/50). There's a lot of money at stake, mostly over how much the child support payments should be increased over the baseline given his expansive bonus and stock payments.
Notwithstanding what's at stake, Mr. Panas (1) represents himself pro per on appeal (despite Covington & Burling on the other side), (2) write his pro per brief with a.i., and (3) doesn't bother to check the citations or factual record cites hallucinated by the computer, or even write a table of contents, follow the rules with respect to formatting, etc.
Seriously?
Because the Court of Appeal is incredibly nice, Mr. Panas avoids getting sanctioned. But geeze.
Get a lawyer, my friend.
P.S. - He also loses the appeal.
