shlep: the Self-Help Law ExPress

One service we hope to provide even more of in 2007 is the aggregation of links on specific topics that may be of use or interest to do-it-yourself legal consumers, or to people who want to be smarter clients, know more about their rights and duties, or avoid trouble or bad outcomes related to specific laws or consumer issues. (Of course, our SideBar always has links to sources and materials for many self-help situations, especially those that are aimed at pro se litigants.)

  Here is an alphabetical list of link collections we have created since shlep officially launched on October 1, 2006.  As always, we urge visitors to use the Comment section that accompanies each posting to tell us of additional relevant recources.

• antitrust law
• bankruptcy self-help
• businesses in financial trouble
• copy permission and copyfraud 
• defamation
• dogs and the law 
• fair use and copyright law 
• grandparent (kinship) guardianship 
• grandparent visitation
• guardianship (adult)
• holiday family court disputes
• holiday-season (and internet) shopping information 
• identity theft, security freezes  
• name (and gender) changes (here, too) 
• land use & zoning, neighbor disputes
• probate & pro se (from f/k/a)
• pre-marital agreements, living together 
• real estate unbundling and self-help
• search engine privacy 
• wills

  The following posts collected links to court-related self-help issues:

• appellate pro se guidance
• helping the pro se defendant  
• looking good in court 
• unbundling at the courthouse 

   If you want to know more about the kinds of services and projects that exist to help persons who appear in court without a lawyer, see the materials discussed in our posting on court-related self-help tools and the best practices for the self-represented.  For help in finding such services in your state or locality, see our getting self-help help page, and the list of self-help Gateways in the SideBar.