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The biggest single problem in commercial matters is costs.
People wrongly focus on whether they are “legally right or not”.
Unfortunately commercial litigation simply isn’t a “Judge Judy show”.
The pursuit of any amount less than $20,000 has to be questioned in the unfortunate modern world.
It’s not greedy lawyers that are the problem.
It’s the exactness of litigation and Court Document preparation that has to be simply completely correct and properly pre-planned.
Usually the Defendant will have a “Defence” or at least a disguised “excuse” and so their response has to be dealt with in the same way.
There also may be a “cross-claim” from the Defendant.
”Since you’re suing me I’ll sue you” - and then the bargaining will start from there!
Subpoenas are all very well.
However, in this crowded modern world the costs of actually persuading people to actually obey the Subpoenas and supply the information properly on time takes a great deal of monitoring.
Government departments and the like can be very difficult to cause them to supply the information properly on time.
What seems to be a cheap process simply doesn’t work without considerable application at your cost.