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I was arguing for avoiding lawyers altogether by learning the subject matter, the court procedures, and handling matters for yourself. Court filing fees are ti
by sunchild 16y ago
I was arguing for avoiding lawyers altogether by learning the subject matter, the court procedures, and handling matters for yourself. Court filing fees are tiny. The cost of your time is the biggest cost, unless you already know copyright rules and how to handle a pro se defense. It's not rocket science. If you don't want to pay a lawyer, then do it yourself.
What part of my post did you think invited an attack on lawyers generally? IAAL, so I'll just ignore the fact that you missed the point entirely, and move on.
- jbooth 16y agoThe premise of the article is that you think it's a credible threat of a lawsuit, either because the person's crazy or the law's really broken. If it's the type of C&D letter that you can laugh at and publicly post a silly retort to on the internet for the lulz, then yeah, go right ahead. Court filing fees may be tiny but screwing up a lawsuit because you didn't take Civil Procedure is expensive. You're saying you're a lawyer downthread.. would you really recommend DIY for any non-lawyer in any real case?
- sunchild 16y agoYou keep putting lawyers up on pedestals and then trying to knock them down. Your question to me implies that lawyers are such specialists that you could never be expected to do their job. You do realize that law school teaches next to nothing about the actual practice, right? The rest is learned by doing. In most courts around the world, you have the right to defend yourself. If you think your time is worth more than a lawyer's, then pay a lawyer. The whole victim routine is tired.