This is the first in a series of articles based on Womble Bond Dickinson’s recent 2024 Trends in Financial Services Litigation seminar. Managing consumer disputes and consumer lawsuits has always been ...

Chief Justice Chase Rogers has put the issue squarely and succinctly: pro se litigants "clog up the court system. Cases are delayed and lengthened, creating frustration for everybody... Litigants with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No studies have yet appeared that actually try to see cases through the eyes of a pro se litigant. Presumptions are made by professionals, but no article or book has been published that methodically ...