Having recently experienced the trauma of dealing with my own family law matter, and I use the word trauma in its very real sense, what I actually encountered was the ultimate in self-discovery bootcamp.

As a lawyer, I thought that my 20-something year-long understanding of the law and the legal system would allow me to represent myself. Ha! How wrong was I? Yes, I know the system, the rules that we play by, but when you have opposing counsel, who by all accounts was referred to as a ‘bulldog’ (that’s my long version of the word…