Welcome!
 Pro Per Litigation is PROPER LITIGATION
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Welcome to Pro Per Litigation Network!
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You are representing yourself in court! Congratulations!
No "hired gun" lawyer will take over your case, pleading obfuscations and technicalities, perverting the truth, slandering the other side in your name.
Like Socrates, William Penn, and thousands of other pro per litigants 
throughout history, you place personal integrity and dignity above all.
throughout history, you place personal integrity and dignity above all.You take Justice seriously! This is, of course, commendable.
However, you may be dismayed at what confronts you. Today our judicial system is dominated by a lawyer industry whose greed is unbridled (more). For them, the purpose of litigation is not to achieve justice. The purpose of most litigation today is simply to put money into lawyers' pockets.
Simple cases that could be resolved quickly drag on for years and years. Why? Because the 14th century procedural rigmarole under which our courts operate puts more money into the lawyers' pockets.
A multi-billion dollar industry depends on archaic procedures to thrive. If people could walk into court and plea their cases honestly and straightforwardly a massive industry would collapse (not to mention sub-industries like "attorney-services", court reporters, etc.).
The bar associations' well-known slogan tells us we have a "fool for a lawyer" if we represent ourselves. And the public is led to believe it cannot do without a priestly class of lawyers.
But that's not so. Indeed, Pro Per (read Proper) litigation was the rule rather than the exception in early American history (more). The stranglehold on our judicial system took place after the American Bar Association convinced states to pass "unauthorized practice of law" statutes in the 1920s and 1930s, which effectively gave lawyers a monopoly over the sale of legal information.
And, the judges are themselves former lawyers. Putting on a black robe doesn't take the lawyer out of a judge. Indeed, the judges tell us we can't even understand the law. As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Aug.1990 speech) tells us: "The law is a specialized field, and the saying 'this is too difficult for you to understand' has a unique validity in the field of judging.".
It's no wonder then, that people who take Justice seriously and want to represent themselves in court are the pariahs of the judicial system. I have been a pro per litigant for years in both the federal and state (California) courts and I've seen this phenomenon first hand.
I developed this site (at my own expense) to provide tools that would be valuable to me as a pro per litigant. The purpose of this web site is to help make our task easier by providing litigation tools, research tools, education, and more. At the same time, I hope, in some modest way, to improve our judicial system which is held hostage to the fee-generating tactics of the lawyer industry.
Important Note: PRO PER LITIGATION NETWORK DOES NOT INTERPRET THE LAW OR PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE
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