Be Your Own Lawyer
Litigation is a slow process – until it’s not. When you don’t feel you have enough time to prepare for or attend a hearing or you’re afraid you won’t meet a filing deadline, move for a delay with a motion for continuance or motion for extension of time.
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Two Things Great Communicators Do Well Mark Twain is credited with once saying, “It takes me three weeks to prepare for an impromptu speech.” If you’ve ever watched a really good trial lawyer give an opening statement or closing argument, you’ll walk away from the experience moved, motivated and […]
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Courtroom5 is proud to announce our participation in the LexisNexis LegalTech Accelerator program for 2019. LexisNexis’ is the best legal research and business intelligence source on the market, and our selection for this program reflects the industry’s renewed commitment to access to justice for regular people. We look forward to working with LexisNexis and joining a prestigious group of other startups in this year’s cohort.
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The secret to finding your footing in court is a solid litigation strategy. Not only does it give you a roadmap to victory, it forces you to analyze your strengths in the case and your opponent’s weaknesses. It also guides your legal research throughout the case and prepares you to make a good showing in front of a judge. The most important thing is to ask the right questions about your case. Here are some questions to get you started.
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As the plaintiff in a major victory in federal court, Brian Vukadinovich has learned enough to write a manual for the pro se plaintiff. This short but comprehensive manual is filled with helpful tips on the entire process of bringing a lawsuit to trial, and winning it. Is it difficult to represent yourself in court? Yes. Is it doable with the right preparation? Absolutely!
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Advice on how to dress for court boils down to dressing conservatively so that your clothing doesn’t detract from your presentation. But little of that advice takes real advantage of judicial bias against pro se litigants. The key is to dress so that you subtly remind the judge you’re not a lawyer. Then start saying things like compulsory joinder and res ipsa loquitur and watch the judge’s lip hit the floor.
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Long after a case is over, a pro se litigant might say, “if I knew then what I know now, things might have turned out better.” Here are 5 lessons that self represented litigants learn too late, after they’ve lost their cases. We know from experience that’s the absolute worst way to learn, because every case matters.
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There are numerous ways to put the stops on a court proceeding, including motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, objections, motions in limine, and motions to suppress. The motion to quash and the motion to strike though are two of the most useful yet underused tools by pro se litigants. Learn the when, how, and why of using these two motions and up your litigation game.
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While going pro se is no barrel of laughs, no one struggling to make ends meet should mortgage a house or take out a loan to pay a lawyer unless they’re sure it’s what they want. If a lawyer loses your case, you don’t get the money back.
So, if you’re of average intelligence and willing to put in the work and time, you can effectively go pro se. You have that right.
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How do you respond to a complaint? Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, there are multiple ways. You can choose fear-, or anger-driven responses, like crying or calling the plaintiff and cursing them out. Or, you can do what so many others who cannot afford a lawyer do. Nothing. So, we’re back at square one. How do you […]
