The client came to me eighteen months after filing a complaint pro se (representing himself). The Judge had nonsuited him (thrown the case out) for failure to revise the complaint so that it could comply with the Practice Book. Opposing counsel was a lawyer with fifty plus years of practice, who was spinning the client in circles.
I agreed to take the case, and put out the dumpster fire the client had created by filing revisions to get a compliant complaint.
The case was about an LLC that owned an airplane. The client had invested in the LLC, and the managing member had frozen him out. The client wanted his money back.
From the beginning of June (when the Judge agreed to re-open the nonsuit) until the end of July (when the Judge, my opposite, and I agreed terms of a settlement), we engaged in a flurry of discovery practice and several exchanges directed toward settling the matter.
The client walked away with a cash settlement, and returned the keys to the plane.
