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I've had several disputes / legal issues come up in the ordinary course of business, mainly through ineptitude / incompetence of the other party rather than act
by tacostakohashi 6y ago
I've had several disputes / legal issues come up in the ordinary course of business, mainly through ineptitude / incompetence of the other party rather than actual malice, but unfortunately it is indeed rather impractical to use the legal system for practical resolution of problems since lawyers are too expensive, and small claims court / pro se litigation is too time consuming.
Big companies, landlords, employers and the like know this, and often totally ignore disputes/problems faced by consumers, even if they'd obviously lose if it ever went to a court.
I think it would be interesting to try some alternative funding mechanisms for legal services - something like a co-operative with attorneys on staff where you can refer issues, and members vote on which ones to pursue? Or a lottery system? Or have any damages awarded go back to the co-operative to fund new cases?
The general idea would be to find a practical way to fund even a small subset of cases to set precedents and have large corporates, landlords, employers behave better towards members of the co-operative.
- virtuous_signal 6y agoPerhaps law firms could invite people with smaller cases to cooperate as follows: everyone contributes some amount of money to a pool and gives the description of their proposed case. Then the law firm chooses the best action to pursue using the pooled money. Then if they win, the proceeds are shared by the firm, and everyone in the pool evenly.
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