Originally Posted by
lowfareair
I remember a lawyer friend a couple years ago mentioning that lawyers often can represent companies in Small Claims, but are often there in more of a "answering questions from a judge" type of role than what you'd expect a lawyer to be doing in a much larger case. One nice thing is that judges can take less s*** from lawyers here as well, and can start to channel a Judge Judy with responses like "so you spent the last 90 seconds avoiding saying the word "no" is that correct?"
Again, just hearsay, but would make sense.
I've been to several small claims trials as a litigant on behalf of a corporation. Small claims court is nothing like Judge Judy, The People's Court, etc. It's basically a civil proceeding but with different rules to streamline some processes. It's still quite formal and nothing like what many think it will be based on what we see on TV.