Preparation & Legal Research Intake | Represent Yourself

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Your matter

Which forum is your matter in(If you are not sure, choose the last option and describe it below.)

Are you bringing it or defending it

What stage is it at

What kind of attendance is coming up

What is at stake

Have you had a representative on this matter

Dates and deadlines

Do you have a hearing or court date

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Is a filing or service deadline coming

Has everything been served and filed on time so far

What you would like prepared

Choose as many or as few as you like. Payment is per task, so one item is a perfectly normal request. We will tell you which of these would help most in your matter, and which are not needed.

Framing the issues(Working out what the case actually turns on and reducing it to the questions the decision-maker must answer.)

Legal research(Written research on the legislation, regulations and rules that govern your question, cited so you can verify it.)

Case law(Decisions that help and decisions that hurt, with what each means for your facts.)

Applications, responses and forms(The correct material for your forum, completed properly, with filing and service steps set out.)

Notices and letters(Notices prepared and timed correctly, and correspondence to the other side, an insurer, a landlord or an employer.)

Affidavits and evidence brief(Affidavits drafted in your voice, exhibits marked and ordered, and a chronology of the key dates.)

Opening statement(A short written opening: what the case is about, what you want, and what you will prove.)

Examination and cross-examination plan(Question plans for your own witnesses and for the other side's, in order, with documents.)

Closing submissions(A written closing tying each fact proved to the test that applies and the remedy sought.)

Hearing rehearsal(A practice run: how to open, present a document, answer without arguing, and close.)

What you already have

Do you have the application or claim that was filed

Do you have the other side's material

Is your evidence gathered

Do you have a written chronology of what happened

How many witnesses do you expect to call

Have you requested or received disclosure

Priorities and budget

If you could only choose one thing, what would help most

How would you like to proceed

Upload your documents

Attach anything already filed, served, or received (Optional but very useful: the application or claim, the other side's material, any notice of hearing, orders, disclosure, and key letters. Photographs of each page are fine as long as every word is readable. PDF, JPG, PNG or Word, up to about 8 MB in total. Please redact anything you do not need us to see.)

In a few lines, what happened and what you want to achieve (Plain language is fine. Please leave out identification numbers, health card and policy numbers, and banking details.)

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