pro se litigants Archives

Sonja Ebron Highlights the Role of Pro Se’s in Access to Justice

Sonja Ebron highlights Courtroom5’s tools and mission to empower self-represented litigants during a justice tech panel on Access to Justice.

Democracy gives us the right to represent ourselves in court, but a pro se litigant without a Personal Practice of Law is setting up to fail.

Pro se litigants often lose their cases when they make mistakes, even when the infractions are minor. Avoid these six mistakes to stay alive.

Co-hosts Sonja Ebron and Debra Slone discuss new research on the characteristics of pro se litigants in U.S. federal courts.

Pro se litigants are practicing law without a license, which is our right when we’re directly interested in a case. But it also means we lose, a lot.

Get used to it. Supercilious lawyers are here to stay. A tongue-in-cheek look at lawyers who bemoan the presence of pro se litigants in court.

Your chances as a pro se litigant are reduced when a state, acting like a crackhead and extortionist, tries to sell you access to its laws.

Are you the kind of pro se litigant who is lost in the courthouse wilderness? Or did you come to conquer it? Let’s find out!

There are 5 lessons self-represented litigants learn after losing their cases. That’s too late and the absolute worst way to learn.

Attorney At Law Magazine calls Courtroom5 a legal innovator in a sign that pro se litigants are finally getting the respect they deserve.

Sylvia Ann Driskell’s lawsuit is the kind of mess that deepens the bias against pro se litigants when it’s laughed out of court.