Wasn't Vic hired by Anime Matsuri for their VA studio?
He didn't hire Balldo Law, he hired Balldo's buddy Ty Beard who failed to file on time and tried to notarize his own paperwork. Vic lost the anti-SLAP suite as a result, and was forced to pay hundreds of thousands. The law was literally changed to be less harsh as a result of how bad he lost, but he was still on the hook.