[fractallyte]

You don't necessarily need an expensive lawyer to take on a contesting party.

Some years back, I challenged a property developer over a right of way issue. I had no legal experience, so I went to my local university's law library in the afternoons when it was open to the public, and I read up on land law.

I bought some "...For Dummies"-style books, wrote my own pleadings, and submitted all the documents to court using the correct civil procedure rules. (Heck, I even formatted the documents using WordPerfect!)

The result was that I spent a few hundred € while the enemy was out of pocket by tens of thousands. (It ended up being settled out of court, in my favor; I'm sure if it had ended up in front of a judge, I would have won.)

Nowadays we have LLMs which can do a huge amount of drudge work for us. (Yes, with the usual caveats: check everything carefully!)

Law is understandable once you ease yourself into the ecosystem. It is possible to fight and win.

[bawolff]

The problem is, sometimes your opponent is actually in the right. It seems like this is one of those situations.