Rightfully, much has been written on the perils of attorneys using artificial intelligence. Court orders admonishing lawyers for citing hallucinated cases have circulated widely in the legal community ...
Recently, two friends reached out to me to review letters they had recently sent out to their respective landlords pertaining to issues with the return of their security deposits. Both letters were ...
A pro se litigant is not subject to Rule 38 sanctions notwithstanding a frivolous appeal, per a decision of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals We question whether it is the best use of ...
Abraham Lincoln once famously said that “He who represents himself has a fool for a client.” While this statement has been demonstrated to be true more often than not, what happens when (1) the pro se ...
Words of wisdom from Judge Jennifer Dorsey (D. Nev.) last week in Naessens v. Breslin: [The self-represented plaintiff] takes issue with an order of mine in an unrelated case calling a pro se ...
Lynn White was out of options. Behind on payments for her mobile home in Long Beach, California, and facing an eviction notice, she had no money for a lawyer. So she accepted a court-appointed ...
A hot topic at American Bar Association national conferences across practice groups is the sharp rise in pro se litigants, particularly in family law cases. In some jurisdictions pro se litigants ...
Defendants who represent themselves in a court of law are pro se. The Supreme Court of the United States has held that criminal defendants have a constitutional right to refuse counsel and represent ...