Some advice for Pro Se plaintiffs You can get many good hints from the American Pro Se Association One of the major problems we often see in court filings by Pro Se plaintiffs is an excess of angry rhetoric, and a lack of the cool legal reasoning which will convince a court. Here is some advice from Susan Guberman-Garcia Esq.
Courtrooms are a foreign country and they have their own language.
It doesn't translate. If its the latter, get some help to draft a complaint in law talk, keep it simple, and go for the bucks you need to survive. You can do that, and still keep the street war going in a forum other than the courtroom. That's the win-win approach. And here are a few more words of wisdom from Nora Cannon, Esq.