You’re expected to be engaged in frivolous litigation when you show up in court without a lawyer, especially when you’re the defendant. If you’ve ever read the small print on the back of a traffic or parking ticket, you’ve had to weigh the cost of the ticket against the cost of fighting it. I’ve seen threats of […]
How To Pay Your Opponent’s Attorney Fees
We hate to see a pro se litigant pay the other side’s attorney fees. It doesn’t happen often because a decent judge will forgive the minor procedural slip-ups of a non-lawyer. But it does happen, and sometimes for good reason. In a recent federal case, M2 Tech, Inc. v. M2 Software, Inc., the pro se defendant (who’d earlier sued the other […]
