Not a chance. The lawyers for the other side will still run up legal bills, and unless you know FRCP and FRAP extremely well--as well as case law--they're going to have to spend more time, not less, in a lawsuit.
And, you are in much better position to argue the fees are excesive if your side has not been party to running them up.
Two different issues. If they take your advice, you'll be on the losing side because, well, they'll steamroller over you. And the losing side pays the legal fees of the winning side. If you're the loser, you eat your legal fees. And while you're haggling out how much the legal fees are, they'll be adding in more billable hours.
Like I said, if you play the game, you pay the bill. How are they going to run up their bill? You don't need case law. You are missing the point. You don't argue the case. Tell the judge to decide it with what he has. What discovery are they going to do in a case like this. You simply don't respond to the discovery requests if they submit them. You don't take their phone calls. You tell them, see you in court, don't bother me, we move the monument when a judge tells us to move it.
Again, nothing you do or say in court or in preparation for the trial is going to make a difference in a case like this. The judge will have already made up his mind depending on his political leanings. Again, the only way to win is not to play the game. Do you just like piling money into the hands of lawyers? That seems to be the only course you advocate.