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…
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Objections Can Make Your Discovery Useless
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…
The Guerrilla Guide to Settling Your Own Car Wreck Case
We're completing the editing on the latest addition to the Guerrilla Guides to the Law and it should be available in the next week. The Guerrilla Guide to Settling Your Own Car Wreck Case calls…
Books Coming Soon in The Guerrilla Guide to the Law Series
We have had a couple of people ask what is on the way n the series, so we thought we'd give you an update. These take a while to write because they are being done…
Why Do I Need to Open an Estate? AKA What is Probate?
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…
Top 10 Myths About the Legal System That Pro Se Parties Believe
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…
The Burden of Proof – What It Is and Why It Is Important
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…
Think Like a Lawyer!
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….
What is Discovery?
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…
Free Legal Forms! – Should I Use Them?
With the recession in full swing it seems as though people are cutting corners wherever they can and that includes their legal matters. As we discussed a few weeks ago, one of the websites that…