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Depends on the laws in your jurisdiction. I think in a lot of cases, small claims courts put very low caps on legal fees that can be claimed. The defendant might only be able to claim a few hundred dollars at most.

You might want to check if lawyers are even allowed in small claims. If they aren't they would have to sent a company representative, and there would be no 'lawyer fees'.

Well in Michigan (where I am located) they are not allowed. I am pretty pessimistic and just assume there are fees I don't know about

Maybe we could create a sort of small mutual insurance fund to pay legal expenses in such cases.

I am not smart enough to know if that is already a thing or not...