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Gravel Road said
In my area anyone...don't need to be an attorney...can go to the court house and file Suit for $115. 

Are you talking small claims (up to $5000), or something bigger?

Gravel Road said
Small Claims fee depends on the Town for mine its $35 for Town Court, If you want to/need to go to County Court it's $85.  For anything that is not small claims (up to $5k)  it is the $115 and there will be some court fees on top of that IF it goes to trial.

Unless you're up against a "Good Will Hunting" type, it seems most occurrences of self-representation would backfire. You'd need to pay court costs and attorney's fees, but your attorney should win against a non-attorney. And you just bring a counter-suit for your court and attorney's fees... and depending on where you live and circumstances, for more.

...Of course then you still need to be able to collect from the person in question who likely can't afford to pay you back which is why they were self-representing in the first place. Hopefully they are (or will be) employed so you can garnish either their pay, their bank account(s), or both.

Gravel Road said
Earth,  The big issue here seems to be the big personal injury law firms going after the insurance money from the policy of the 'so called guilty party'.  The attorney's rarely go to court and they do get a better check from the insurance company than what a person who goes it alone would. 

Point it, Atty's file and subsequently drop a lot of lawsuits once they get the insurance money. 

The "point is" huh? Last I checked, this is my thread Gravel. The "point" was about LLC benefits, not merely liability or lawsuits.

You took it in a different direction once most of the "point" had concluded. That's fine, gradual tangents have merit. But then I responded to something you said and instead of addressing the subject, you addressed me in the tone of a perceived failing: You opened the subject of self-representation, and then tell me I'm missing the big picture when I respond in-context? (non sequitur: a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement)

In general public discussion groups on the Internet tend to frown on "ad hominem arguments" (ad hominem: an attack on an argument made by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, rather than attacking the argument directly. When used inappropriately, it is a logical fallacy in which a claim or argument is dismissed on the basis of some irrelevant fact or supposition about the author or the person being criticized). You haven't in fact responded at all within topic. You are welcome to respond to the topic (now of self-representation which you introduced), but don't presume to tell me what my own thread is about lest you seek to derail it, which that too (derailing a thread) would be a general breach of Internet etiquette.