When a pro se plaintiff recently filed a more than 40-page memorandum accompanied by hundreds of pages of evidence, the FP attorney defending the case realized that artificial intelligence was at play ...

In January 2024, Plaintiff Graciela Dela Torre settled her long-term disability claim with Nippon Life Insurance Company (Nippon) and dismissed her case with prejudice. Later, Plaintiff Dela Torre ...

Artificial intelligence is here, accessible, and used by litigants of every stripe. For litigators, the rise of AI presents a ...

The advice for folks who get caught up in civil litigation and are tempted to represent themselves is essentially universal: Don't do it. Nevertheless, the number of pro se litigants in America ...

In Berman v. Matteucci, a pro se prisoner sought to file a belated habeas petition, claiming that he had just learned about a possible legal basis for his appeal using ChatGPT. No, said Judge Michael ...

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 ...

The public often frames pro se litigants as people who “choose” to represent themselves. That framing is convenient, and it’s wrong. For most of us, this isn’t a choice at all. It’s what happens when ...