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Very interesting.
I’m a lawyer and I have lately had the valuable experience of being a litigant – as a defendant in a private dispute.
It was (and still is) very disorienting and debilitating. My life (and my wife & children’s) has been on hold for over a year, and we still face the prospect of several more years’ involvement.
Despite my very best efforts to empathise with my own litigating clients down the years, nothing prepares you for the relentless and sapping burden of it all. Most worrying is the inability to step outside of the matter and take an objective look as any lawyer should – this failing is something that has surprised and troubled me greatly. It is just too hard to separate one’s self from the emotion of it all when it is your own affairs in issue.
The old adage that a lawyer representing themselves has a fool for a client is entirely correct : I could never cope without the excellent solicitors who have taken on the daunting prospect of another lawyer’s troubles.