Maybe don't ask the parking garage lawyer to file your federal motions.

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5. When an attorney appears in a case

Ordinarily, attorneys practice in the states and federal districts where they are admitted to practice law. Sometimes, however, they appear in cases outside the jurisdictions they're admitted to practice in. This can happen for any number of reasons, such as their expertise in a certain area of law. In order to practice in that other jurisdiction, they file a motion with the court asking to be admitted "pro hac vice," a Latin phrase roughly translated as "for this occasion only."

Different jurisdictions have different requirements for admitting an out-of-jurisdiction attorney to appear in a case, but the usual ones are that they are an attorney in good standing in their own jurisdiction(s), they carry malpractice insurance, and they associate with an attorney that is admitted to practice in this other jurisdiction. The native jurisdiction attorney has a responsibility to make sure that the pro hac vice attorney follows all local rules, is aware of special deadlines and practices in the other jurisdiction, and so forth.

What the story is with the former guy's filing looks to me like a slap-dash effort thrown together at the last minute by people who don't know what they're doing. Most litigants would be embarrassed for their lawyers to have done such a piss-poor job.