In a few isolated cases that may have been true. Those are the cases that were published. Those are the cases held up by the bar associations to lend dignity to the statute. The reality however is very different.
Unscrupulous lawyers use it as a tactical weapon .
Most of them are too poor to hire a lawyer. Some of them had never before been involved in any litigation. Mr. Coutin's Lawsuit against Judicial Corruption Dimov v. U.S.Dist. Involved in only one litigation. Now suing against federal Local Rule 27a.