Pro Se Skillset → Free

The First-Week Kit, ten pages. Seven things to do before you do anything else: find the procedural rules that actually govern you and read them; give notice and be able to prove it; start the calendar; start the list of what you have verified; start the list of what you will not say; start the list of who is who; and put everything in writing from here on. Each one takes under an hour. Each one is in there because doing it late cost me something. It closes with the whole road on one page — all eight phases, what you produce in each, what comes at you, and what ends it.

The Case Snapshot, six pages, fillable. Seven sections that get a matter out of your head and into a form: who and where, what happened, what you have, what is due, and what is still open. Type it in or write it in pen.

Who it’s for

Somebody who has just been served, just filed, or is about to.