Is it difficult to prepare the paperwork to initiate a lawsuit?
Actually, it’s often fairly easy-especially if you learn how to do the necessary legal research and prepare drafts of the papers, restricting your lawyer’s role to that of checking your work. Initiating a lawsuit is especially straightforward in states such as California and Michigan, where court clerks provide preprinted fill-in-the-blanks forms for many types of lawsuits. But even in states where lawsuits are filed the old-fashioned way, using paragraphs of appropriate legal jargon on numbered legal paper, the actual wording is almost always available word for word from lawyer “forms books” or CD-ROMs. These information sources, which are routinely used by lawyers, are available at all law libraries and are usually fairly easy for the nonlawyer to understand.
