Do you remember that you dared this woman to sue you for calling her a liar and said that the defamation suit would clear your name?

Does this still seem like a good plan, or does it seem like a competent lawyer should have been advising you? https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1289121228423401475

Even frivolous lawsuits suck to defend against, and you decided to make a textbook defamatory statement.

In what way did this help you?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/alan-dershowitz-face-defamation-suit-filed-twitter-dare-1248336

And my favorite part was that the argument for dismissal was based on the idea that he was just "passively repeating" old denials.

The judge literally referenced Dershowitz's appreciation for "Chutzpah" in the opinion."

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.513818/gov.uscourts.nysd.513818.67.0.pdf

If you are arguing that your statements were repeated only passively, do not write that you have made "efforts."

And then, Dershowitz argues that he's only acting in self-defense, which... look at the test for that:

The phrase "common sense" should only ever appear in legal writing in sarcastic scare quotes, as it does here.

Followed immediately by "unfairness" also in scare quotes.

In short, Alan Dershowitz is an absolute nightmare client, and I cannot imagine him being competent counsel for anyone, ever, at any time.