Legal Question in Personal Injury in California

Please understand that what I am about to say may seem harsh, but the reality of your situation is a harsh reality. So what I am about to tell you is only for your own good and to save you a lot of wasted time and frustration.

First off, you need to understand that many very good lawyers, and plenty of average ones like me, will take a case on the basis that they only get paid if and when they win. It's called a contingency fee agreement. To take a case like that, however, we have to believe we will win enough to reasonably compensate us for our services. If you have a case that you think is worth multi-millions of dollars and you can't find a lawyer who will take that case for a share of the winnings, it means you have no valid case. If you have a $2 million case, for example, a lawyer who won that for you would generally be entitled to at least $500,000. If it went all the way to trial without settling and they won $2 million, their take could be as much as $800,000. Any lawyer in the state who does contingency fee work would jump at the chance to take a case like that if it was a case that could be won. So if you can't find a lawyer, you don't have the case you think you have, not by a long shot.

Second, even if you have a valid case you are going to lose without a lawyer. The questions you are asking show such a total misunderstanding of the law and court processes and procedures, that you are not going to get your case off the ground, much less win it. The lawyers for the university are going to eat you alive and get your case thrown out at the start. And even if you manage somehow to get the case past your complete lack of understanding of basic court forms and filings, I have not once in 26 years of litigation EVER seen a lay person represent themselves against lawyers and win. So the only valid advice I can give you in good faith is find a lawyer - someone will take it if it actually is valid and can be won - or accept the fact that no matter how much you think you have a case, you don't.