Imagine sitting at your kitchen table after your landlord has given you papers saying you’re being evicted, trying desperately to understand the document that apparently explains your rights and options but that might as well be written in a foreign language despite being technically in English, confronting sentences like “the plaintiff avers that the defendant … Read more
Imagine sitting across from your parents trying to explain that you’ve decided to sue your former employer for wage theft after they failed to pay overtime wages you legitimately earned over two years of working sixty-hour weeks at the family restaurant they own with relatives from your tight-knit Korean American community, watching your mother’s face … Read more
Picture yourself at a pleasant dinner party where conversation flows easily through safe topics like vacation plans, children’s activities, restaurant recommendations, and maybe some carefully modulated political opinions that don’t risk genuine offense, when suddenly someone mentions that they’ve been drafting their will and trying to decide how to handle their estate given complicated family … Read more
Consider the moment when your sister calls during your weekly phone conversation asking how everything is going, and you hear yourself saying “fine, everything’s fine” despite having received papers that morning notifying you that you’re being sued by your former landlord for damages you don’t believe you caused, knowing that this lawsuit could cost you … Read more