You’re thinking too hard about this, the lawyer left this response open ended on purpose as an ad. Regardless if the lawyer won or lost the case, the implication here is that they won, so they are so good at their job, the opposition cries about it.

I use clips on Elementary OS, I don’t know how well it works with other distros.

Probably due to wildcard expansion by the shell. Use dot (.) instead of asterisk (*).