Open Email to a Pro Se Litigant

In lieu of the Doc of the Day, I will share a couple helpful tools with you.

This is an email I sent to my new friend. Other pro se litigants, feel free to email me at bohemian_books@yahoo.com. I cannot give legal advice, but I can share experience, wisdom, tears and a few laughs.

Pleasure meeting you.

The best search tool I have is http://www.dogpile.com. It is a conglomeration of search engines including Google. The trick is to use precise language. Misha Tseytlin is much easier to find than John Smith.

If you don’t have a Westlaw subscription (about $800 per month) you can use Westlaw at the Arkansas Supreme Court Building and Bowen Law School by the Museum of Fine Art. I pull up 10 or 15 cases in an hour and email them to myself. Then when I am at the pool with my granddaughter, I can read the cases at my leisure.

You are an honor to your parents and an inspiration to me.

Cheers.