<p>Groping in the dark</p>

<p>Groping in the dark. Did you know that more than 95% of all litigations never reach the traditional courts but get settled by both parties without upfront knowledge of size of legal fees and duration of negotiations, etc ? Does it not make more sense to settle disputes via e-Court ( with full &amp; transparent upfront knowledge of legal fees and duration for settlement ).</p>

<p>In North America and the majority of western democracies, lawyers and judges regulate their own markets. The upshot is that getting legal help is enormously expensive and out of reach for the vast majority of Americans. Anyone faced with a contract dispute, family crisis, foreclosure or eviction must pay a lawyer with a JD degree to provide service one-on-one in the same way lawyers have done business for hundreds of years.</p>

<p>Increasingly, the only &quot;persons&quot; with access to legal help are &quot;artificial persons&quot; -- corporations, organizations and governments. No wonder that in a 2010 New York study, it was shown 95% of people in housing court are unrepresented. The same is true in consumer credit and child support cases; 44% of people in foreclosures are representing themselves&mdash;against a well-represented bank, no small number of whom engaged in robo-signing and sued people based on faulty information. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. For every person who is unrepresented in court there are probably tens of thousands who didn&#39;t have any legal advice when they did the things that landed them in hot water in the first place. Who can afford $200 to $300 an hour to get advice on local small business regulations, the fine print in a mortgage document, or how not to make mistakes that will cost you in court when fighting over kids and money with your soon-to-be ex-spouse?</p>
