Pro Se Stories

The Florida Supreme Court Access to Justice Commission has requested that the United Way reach out to Florida residents to gather their stories about pro se litigants. The United Way has in turn reached out to FALDP to help meet the request. We need your pro se stories - successes and failures. Do you know a pro se litigant whose access to the legal system was hindered by not having an attorney? Do you know a pro se litigant who succeeded without any help from anyone? Do you know a pro se litigant who succeeded in their case with the help of a document preparer?

We need specific stories with contact information. Consumers will have control over how their contact information and name are used.

Paraphrased from the Supreme Court's request:

"How will we use the information people share with us? First, we might use the bare facts, without names, in outreach materials explaining the needs the Commission is addressing. Second, we would write stories about the cases or shoot videos. Third, we might provide the names and phone numbers to reporters who are interested in doing stories about improving access to civil justice. Of course, we would do nothing without the permission of each and every person we talk to.

But first we need to find some people willing to talk to us."

Please send your stories to staff@faldp.org - this is huge, the Supreme Court is listening.