Dave,
I hope that you don't visit FH with that attitude. You may not make much progress.
I am from a family of lawyers so I do have some inside view there. FH MUST follow the letter of the law. If an attorney showed up with proper documentation, FH CANNOT simply throw the lawyer out of the office. That is against the law, and FH would be subject to prosecution for that behavior. So I disagree with your premise that bringing along a lawyer would be a waste of time.
As for the R/S... we must apply a little commmon sense here. This penny is ripe for an R/S. And an R/S would wipe out the SH. If you are in denial of that possibility then we should probably park that concept for another time to debate.