Walk It Off
Even though I am no longer practicing law, I still do some consulting and often get calls from lawyers that I know wanting to bounce ideas off of me or ask questions. Just the other…
Even though I am no longer practicing law, I still do some consulting and often get calls from lawyers that I know wanting to bounce ideas off of me or ask questions. Just the other…
A friend passed along this issue and asked us to write an entry on it since it is pretty common in lawsuits, but might be one of those issues that a person representing themselves pro…
This is going to be a quick one, but many people don't understand why they have to open an estate just to cash a small check made out to someone who is deceased, close an…
1) The courts are fair On a whole, this is probably more true than not but just slightly and definitely not to the degree that a person representing themselves believes. A lot of the later…
A really tricky part of a case, and one that gets many pro se litigants confused, is the concept of the burden of proof. Simply put, the burden of proof tells you who has to…
Look, the simple fact is that there are good lawyers and bad lawyers. There are smart lawyer and dumb lawyers. And there are skilled lawyers and unskilled ones. The same applies to judges as well….
While we have a great book on written discovery available through the website (you can read about it at this post) we wanted to take just a moment to answer the basic question, "What is…
The number one problem facing most people who try to represent themselves, also known as appearing pro se or pro per, is that they don't understand the concepts behind what they are doing. Note I…
Do you want to represent yourself in a lawsuit, but are afraid that not only will the playing field not be level but it will even be slanted against you? That's a valid…
As we've mentioned in previous posts and in the Guerrilla Guides to the Law, nothing makes a pro se litigant look sillier or marks you as a rookie more than using the wrong terminology or…