They will, because they don’t want to pursue legal action where there’s little chance of them getting paid. It’s worth giving you a half-hour of their time for free to figure out if 1) there’s enough money involved, 2) the defendant can pay up in the event of a win or 3) you can pay up if you don’t win. Nothing worse than working 100 hours and not being able to collect because the defendant is “judgment-proof” (aka flat broke).
Have a home issue where the builder owes me $100k in an open-and-shut case… but there are a dozen other people in the same situation, his company has folded and he’s under indictment for fraud in an unrelated case. My lawyer advised me to just move on with my life as any chance of collecting is near-zero.
Have a home issue where the builder owes me $100k in an open-and-shut case… but there are a dozen other people in the same situation, his company has folded and he’s under indictment for fraud in an unrelated case. My lawyer advised me to just move on with my life as any chance of collecting is near-zero.