We never had an attorney. We learned stuff when M&M/Mars sued us. A 396 page 4 lb lawsuit where they threatened to bankrupt us. We stumbled on the Precious Moments case and First Sale Doctrine. That's all we had against the #3 ranked IP law firm in the east. When we fought back they settled in our favor. Corporations are bullies.
Several years ago (sadly after we had sued our last fabric company) the Stanford School of Law took us on as a class project and provided us with two law suits to use if we had any more problems. We didn't but another seller we know got shut down by Laurel Burch, used the suit on our website and got them to settle in her favor.
The key point is that a school like Stanford wouldn't have done this if we were in the wrong.
And we don't know of any other suits where people got sued for using the fabric. Precious Moments was back in 1996. Mars against us was 2002 and they settled. If you know of any other suits we would love to get that information.