If you don't hire a lawyer.........will a judge take your case seriously?

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If you file a lawsuit and you choose to represent yourself instead of hiring a lawyer.....

Will a judge take your case seriously and judge it by its content?

or will a judge laugh you off the bench and not give your case a chance?
 
It is your right to defend yourself if you wish and a judge would be legally obliged to sit and listen to the case.However, if you want the best outcome you will need a lawyer there as they will have experience within the Law and the expertise to help you.
 
It's not the judge you have to worry about. The defendant's lawyer is the one who will take advantage of it. He or she does this for a living and you are easy pickings. They know all the tricks and you don't. Get a lawyer. A judge will take you more seriously too.
 
As long as you can handle that role it will be taken seriously. If you go in with no knowledge of the laws of that subject, then you will lose, but it will be taken seriously.
 
I've known a few that have decided to go it alone in the
court room. I knew even fewer that came out on top by
going it alone, whether it is the judge taking a person
without a lawyer lightly or if it is the case with a lawyer
that presents the case better and within the law and
the judge bases his/her judgment on this, who can tell.
My opinion is if you sue and don't know the law, you getting
yourself laughed out of the court room by choosing to take
it on your own.
 
Judges have a very wide personal latitude and can cite precedents in the law to justify just about whatever their personal idea of justice is in the case at hand. In other words, yes, he can blow you off and you will never be able to tell. Also they are by nature conservative and have no interest in seeing anyone shake up their "go along to get along" system.
 
The judge will be impartial. If you sue someone, and that person hires an attorney, the attorney will blow your case right out of the water. You are an amateur dealing with professionals.
 
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