Unfortunately they don't even have an attorney.
They have someone who I assume is a paralegal helping them understand and prepare and submit their documents on a pro-bono basis but no legal advisor outside or inside the courtroom. And because they still desire to remain faithful they would reject help from the ex-JW community. Really the only solid information we have is based on the court documents and the informant information of a never-baptized relative of someone in the congregation.
The defendants have a JW attorney. If the plaintiffs lose, they stand in danger of having to pay the defense's legal fees. That would suck because these are just regular guys, not wealthy, and nowhere close to the multibillion dollar Watchtower corporation.
As for what the case is actually about, the defense (the C.O. the D.O. the takeover elders, and the unnamed guy from the WT Service Desk) is asserting that the case IS about religion ONLY and that the court has no jurisdiction over it at all.
The plaintiffs assert that California corporate law has no provision for a religious entity to remove members from their corporate positions (a congregation is a legal corporation in the state, the body of elders are registered with the state as corporate officers and only that body can add or remove new corporate officers). So while the Borg has every right to remove them as elders, it had NO right to remove them as the corporate officers of the Menlo Park congregation or to take over the bank accounts of that legal corporation.
That's what the case boils down to. Did the Watchtower representatives in the form of the CO, DO, Service desk, and elders from the neighboring/merging Redwood South congregation have the legal right to take over the corporation that was Menlo Park congregation and seize its assets? With a good attorney, these guys would appear to have a very solid case. They have an extensive paper trail as can be seen in the documentation presented to the court, and they are gathering more from the local banks whch have been subpoenad for records of the accounts held there.
Without an attorney? I don't have much hope for them.