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8-page guide: 10 things every Texas pro se litigant should know before their first hearing. Free with email signup.
Get It Free →I sketch the skeleton of one motion you’re drafting pro se. Headings, section order, what to include where. You write the filing.
Buy $5A hearing-safe 250-word post for Facebook or X that tells your story without giving opposing counsel ammunition.
Buy $7One written answer (under 500 words) to a specific situation. Judge ruled, opposing counsel filed, CPS at your door.
Buy $12Your next 3 moves, written. A plain-English plan of the specific next three actions to take in your case.
See Details →Your rough notes + uploaded documents → clean, exhibit-ready one-page chronology. Up to 15 documents.
Buy $27I draft one Texas Public Information Act request letter targeting specific records. You review, sign, and send.
Buy $27Upload up to 20 documents. I surface the top 10 issues ranked by importance with plain-English summaries.
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Buy $67Up to 50 files reviewed. One-page report: strong / weak / missing / order of use.
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Before we talk about services, let's be clear about what the law guarantees you. These are not opinions. They are controlling authorities. Preparation is what turns these rights into outcomes.
The Sixth Amendment grants the accused personally the right to make a defense — not merely to have one made for them. Binding in every state.
Texas expressly permits parties to represent themselves in civil cases. Same standards, same access, same courtroom.
The Texas Public Information Act. Police, county, school, DA, and most state agency records are accessible by written request. Use them.
Motion service (Rule 21), pretrial conference (166), subpoenas (176), production (196), interrogatories (197). The tools that turn a case into a record.
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10 things every Texas pro se litigant should know before their first hearing — written by Ryan Nichols, the Marine vet who became the only Jan 6 defendant (out of 1,500+) to get a federal judge to rule his due-process rights were violated. Plain-English guidance, no legal jargon, ready to print.
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From dressing for court to handling a hostile judge — the basics that separate credible pro se litigants from dismissed ones.
How I got the only federal due-process ruling in the Jan 6 cohort — and what that taught me about staying organized when the system isn't fair.
Rule 21, 196, 197. The specific Texas Rules of Civil Procedure that pro se litigants need to know by number.
Why judges read timelines and don't read document dumps — and how to build a one-page chronology in under 30 minutes.
Stuck on what to do next? In 24 hours, you get a written plan with the exact next 3 moves for your case — what to file, what to document, what to watch for — based on the specific situation you send me.
Specific actions in priority order — what to file, what to send, what to document, what to ask for. Written in plain English, no legal jargon.
For every move, a short explanation of why it matters — which rule, which procedure, what it sets up for later.
If you have a hearing or filing deadline coming up, the plan is ordered around it so nothing falls through the cracks.
Delivered to your email within 24 hours of your intake form submission. One revision if something is off.
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Short intake form: where your case is, what's happening next, what you're worried about. Upload any key documents.
Emailed to you as a clean written document. Your next 3 moves, in priority order, with the reasoning for each.
This is not legal advice. This is organizational direction. You still need a licensed attorney for legal questions. But if the question is “what do I do next?” — that I can answer.
“The Sixth Amendment does not provide merely that a defense shall be made for the accused; it grants to the accused personally the right to make his defense.”
— Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), U.S. Supreme Court
Texas expressly permits parties to represent themselves in civil matters.
— Tex. R. Civ. P. 8 — Texas Rules of Civil Procedure
No. I am not an attorney and Real Ryan Nichols LLC is not a law firm. This is organizational and procedural direction, not legal advice. For legal advice, consult a Texas-licensed attorney.
The $97 Initial Case Review is the next step up — full written plan plus a phone call. If during your $19 review I see a much larger issue, I’ll tell you so in the delivery.
Because delivery happens in 24 hours of real research time, this service is non-refundable once your intake form is submitted. If you haven’t submitted the intake form yet, email me within 24 hours of purchase and I’ll refund.
You have 30 days from purchase to submit the intake form. After that, the credit expires.
Yes — with the limit that I do not provide strategic defense advice, which is strictly the role of licensed criminal defense counsel. For criminal matters, this service is best used for navigating the procedural side (filings, deadlines, records requests, motion practice).
One flat price. No retainer. No games. Just a written plan in your inbox, tomorrow.
Buy Quick Case Direction — $19 →Real Ryan Nichols LLC publishes ongoing investigations and case documentation. Each case file is built on public records, court filings, and verifiable facts. Legal citations follow the order of SCOTUS → federal law → Texas Supreme Court → state statute/rule.
Continuance motion and subpoena dispute in a Harrison County family matter. Tex. R. Civ. P. 251 (continuance) and Rule 176 (subpoenas) govern. Ongoing support: timeline, exhibits, PIA records requests.
Read the Case File →Motion for withdrawal of counsel filed March 6, 2026, and the pro se response that followed. Tex. Disc. R. Prof. Conduct 1.15; Tex. R. Civ. P. 10, 21, 21a.
Read the Case File →Alleged fraudulent transfer of corporate control and unauthorized debt. Tex. Bus. & Com. Code Ch. 24 (UFTA); Tex. Penal Code § 32.32, § 32.46. Police report filed, matter monitored.
Read the Case File →I'm Ryan Nichols. Real Ryan Nichols LLC is the work I do to make sure the truth has a chance in courtrooms designed to ignore it. I help anyone who asks. This is who I am and why I do this.
In January 2021, I was arrested as part of the federal January 6th cases. What followed was years of watching the system do things I did not believe it was allowed to do — to me, to my family, to every other person I shared a courtroom with.
Most of my co-defendants could not get a single motion heard. I kept filing anyway. I kept documenting. I kept organizing every piece of evidence I had, every filing, every ruling, every word on the record.
At my December 2021 bond hearing, United States District Judge Thomas F. Hogan — a senior federal judge with more than forty years on the bench — ruled on the record that my due-process and constitutional rights had been violated. And then, in the same breath, he denied my release and sent me back to solitary confinement for another eleven months.
That is when I learned something I wish I had not had to learn: a federal judge can admit, on the record, that your rights have been violated — and that admission, by itself, will not set you free. You still have to fight.
So I fought. Out of more than 1,500 defendants in the January 6th cohort, I was the only one to get the ruling I did. I had to fight harder to get released and prove my innocence. I came out the other side because I would not stop organizing. That is the skill I now give to other people.
Real Ryan Nichols LLC is a Texas-based independent investigative research and case-preparation service. I help people who are walking into courtrooms with a terrible deck and no playbook — usually because the system they trusted has stopped working for them. Any case type. Family, criminal, civil, administrative, CPS, probate, landlord-tenant. Investigative journalists cover every beat; I operate the same way.
I am not an attorney. This is not a law firm. What I do is investigative, organizational, and advocacy work:
• I build the timeline.
• I organize the evidence.
• I draft the public-records requests.
• I prepare the exhibits.
• I document what happens, on the record, as it happens.
Then I hand you back a case that a judge can actually follow in sixty seconds — instead of the 300-page pile of paper the other side is counting on you to walk in with.
I help anyone who asks. Investigative journalists cover every beat — criminal, civil, family, administrative. I operate the same way. Every case type is on the table; every engagement stays in the investigative, organizational, and advocacy lane. What I do not do is practice law.
The truth deserves a fighting chance in the room that matters. Start where you are — your first step is free.
Co-counsel investigative research, evidence organization, and public-records work for Texas solo practitioners and small-firm attorneys. When you are short on paralegal hours and long on case volume, hand me the organizing.
Hours spent on organization are hours the client pushes back on. But the work still has to happen.
If you have one, they're booked. If you don't, it falls on you — and $350/hr is not the right rate to be typing a timeline.
The night-before exhibit scramble is where winnable cases get lost. Better prep ≠ longer hours for you.
Upload up to 20 documents. Top 10 issues ranked. Use for opposing counsel's dumps before you dig in.
Details →One-page chronology plus ranked issue list across up to 30 documents. Hearing-prep friendly.
Details →Full written analysis with 30-day action plan. I hand you a draft brief's worth of thinking.
Details →Done-for-you hearing-ready binder: timeline, exhibit list, document index, FOIA drafts, prep brief, video walkthrough.
Details →Ongoing investigative support on a case, district, or practice-area basis. Email me for a scope.
Contact →A lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client. Competent representation requires the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness, and preparation reasonably necessary for the representation.
— Tex. Disc. R. Prof. Conduct 1.01(a)
I am an independent investigative researcher and advocate — I am explicitly not a licensed private investigator (Tex. Occ. Code Ch. 1702), not a paralegal working under your supervision (though I can be scoped that way by written agreement), and not an attorney. I do not give legal advice or appear in court. You own the legal judgment.
— Scope clarification
Drop your info. You get the free Attorney Field Guide (co-counsel scoping, East Texas judge profiles, sample investigative work product) plus quarterly updates. No spam.
The Attorney Field Guide is in draft — it ships to your inbox within 48 hours, along with a scoping conversation invite. For urgent case support, email Ryan@RealRyanNichols.com or 903-345-8990.
See the Service Menu →Opposing counsel dumped 80 pages on you. Your case file grew overnight. Send me up to 20 documents and in 48 hours I hand you the 10 most important issues ranked by priority, with a plain-English summary of what each one means for your case.
Each issue labeled Critical / Important / Watch so you know where to focus.
For each issue: what it means, where it showed up in your docs, and what it signals.
Quoted snippets tied back to specific pages / documents so you can verify every claim.
A one-paragraph suggested next step per issue — what to file, what to ask, what to watch for.
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PDFs, images, emails, screenshots — whatever you have. Plus 2-3 lines of case context.
Delivered as a clean PDF. Top 10 issues ranked. Cross-referenced. Plain English.
Discovery requests for production, including documents, are governed by Rule 196 and must be responded to with the documents organized by request or by the categories used in the request.
— Tex. R. Civ. P. 196 (paraphrased for summary)
Document triage is organizational work, not legal analysis. I tell you what the documents say and what issues surface. You and your attorney decide what that means for your case strategy.
— Scope clarification
No. I flag what the documents contain and rank which items appear significant. Your attorney (or you, pro se) decides legal strategy.
Court filings, opposing counsel correspondence, contracts, police reports, CPS records, medical records, emails, text screenshots. If it's text or image-with-text, I can triage it.
Buy the $77 Evidence Triage (up to 50 files) or the $497 Evidence Org Pack (done-for-you).
Full refund within 12 hours of purchase if you have not yet uploaded documents. Non-refundable once the intake is submitted (real review hours begin).
Stop drowning in the document pile. Start with the ones that matter.
Buy Document Triage — $37 →A major hearing ahead. An opposing counsel who knows the system. A case that is too big for a $37 triage. I sit with your whole file for as long as it takes — then hand you a multi-page written analysis plus a prioritized 30-day action plan built around the dates in your case.
Where your case is strong. What evidence supports it. What legal framework applies. Which rules work in your favor.
Where your case is weak. Honestly. The holes opposing counsel will find first. What to shore up before hearing.
What should exist but isn't in your pile yet. FOIA targets. Witness requests. Records you can still get.
Week-by-week priorities ordered around the actual dates in your case. What to file, when, and why.
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Full intake form. Upload every relevant document. Tell me the story, the dates, and what you want to happen.
Multi-page written analysis + 30-day action plan. Delivered as a clean PDF. One round of clarification included.
“The Sixth Amendment does not provide merely that a defense shall be made for the accused; it grants to the accused personally the right to make his defense.”
— Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), U.S. Supreme Court
A person who chooses to represent themselves in civil or criminal matter is held to the same standards as a licensed attorney. Preparation is not optional.
— See Mansfield, C. & L.M.R. Co. v. Swan, 111 U.S. 379 (1884); Tex. R. Civ. P. 8 (right to appear pro se)
No. It's an investigative and organizational analysis. I tell you what the documents show, where the case is strong, where it is weak, and what to prioritize. Your attorney (or you, pro se) decides the legal moves.
You will know much more clearly what kind of lawyer to hire and for what. Many clients come to me first to figure out if they need counsel at all.
The $97 review is a shorter written recommendation plus a call. The $197 Deep Review is a multi-page written analysis with a structured 30-day action plan. Bigger cases or bigger stakes belong here.
Refundable within 24 hours of purchase if no intake has been submitted. Non-refundable once intake is submitted (deep-dive research begins immediately).
For the case that deserves more than triage.
Buy Deep Case Review — $197 →The case is too big to triage. The hearing is too close to skimp. You need a courtroom-ready evidence package that a judge can follow in 60 seconds. I build it. You walk in prepared.
Clean one-page chronology covering every relevant date. The judge's fastest onramp to understanding your case.
Numbered, labeled, courtroom-ready exhibit list with cover page and cross-reference index.
Every document in your file, tagged, indexed, and mapped to exhibits. No more page-flipping mid-hearing.
Ranked list of the issues, strengths, and weaknesses in your case. The strategic map.
Drafted Texas Public Information Act requests for any missing public records you can still pull.
A written brief you can use to prepare for hearing: talking points, anticipated questions, responses.
I record a 20–30 minute video walking YOU through how to USE the binder in the courtroom. Yours to keep.
After delivery, you get one round of clarifications or additions before the final version is locked.
Secure checkout. You get an intake link immediately.
Upload every document you have. Share context. I will ask for missing pieces on day 2.
5–7 business days of real work: timeline, index, exhibits, drafts, brief, video. No shortcuts.
Delivered as a structured digital package + optional printed binder for an extra $97.
Exhibits offered at trial must be identified, marked, and introduced through a sponsoring witness or by stipulation. Organization of exhibits before hearing is not optional.
— Tex. R. Evid. 901, 902; Tex. R. Civ. P. 166, 166a
“The Sixth Amendment does not provide merely that a defense shall be made for the accused; it grants to the accused personally the right to make his defense.”
— Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975)
No. Every deliverable is organizational. I organize, index, summarize, and prep. Your attorney (or you, pro se) decides strategy.
Message me first. If your hearing is within 5 business days I may accept a rush for an additional $100–200 depending on case complexity.
Yes. Add-on $97 for tabbed, printed, bound delivery anywhere in the continental US (3–5 day ground).
Procedural side yes. Strategic defense advice must come from licensed criminal counsel.
Refundable within 48 hours of purchase if no intake has been submitted. After intake, non-refundable (deep-work hours begin immediately).
For the case where losing is not an option.
Buy Evidence Org Pack — $497 →Members get private access to their case documentation, delivered work product, and ongoing updates. If you have purchased a service or submitted a case, your account is already set up.
Log in to view your purchased services, delivered reports, and case files.
Log In →Every report, timeline, exhibit list, and analysis I deliver is accessible from your account — forever.
Active case files you are following can be subscribed to. You get private notifications when something changes.
Next service purchase auto-fills your info. No retyping the intake from scratch.
Future member-only guides, recorded walkthroughs, and practice tools.
The fastest path in is to grab the free Pro Se Starter. Your account is created automatically when you sign up, and the PDF is yours instantly.
Get the Free Pro Se Starter →Plain-English articles on Texas court procedure, due process, public records, misconduct reporting, subpoenas, divorce rights, and investigative journalism. Written by Ryan Nichols. Backed by citations.
Due process is a fundamental principle in the American legal system. When those rights are violated, it can lead to unfair treatment, wrongful convictions, or other serious consequences.
Misconduct cases in East Texas have drawn increasing attention. These cases often involve allegations of corruption, abuse of power, or violations of due process.
When you face situations involving corruption, misconduct, or due process issues, clarity and organization become essential. How Real Ryan Nichols LLC consultation helps.
Stuck in a situation where doubt and suspicion cloud your mind? Whether personal, legal, or concerns about corruption — here's how we help you find clarity.
Taking action is important, but the process should be straightforward and accessible. Step-by-step guidance for reporting official misconduct to the right agencies.
Subpoenas are legal tools that compel appearance or production of documents. The basics for Texas family court, so you know what to expect and how to protect yourself.
Investigative journalism digs into public records, court filings, financial disclosures, and first-hand accounts — surfacing facts powerful interests want hidden.
Texas divorce is governed by detailed statutes meant to protect both parties — but violations happen. Judge misapplication, attorney misconduct, hidden assets, order violations.
Court records are public documents. The Texas Public Information Act gives citizens the right to access government records. Here's how to pull them.
When a subpoena is overly broad, abusive, or used to harass rather than gather evidence, the responding party has the right to fight back with a Motion to Quash.
Financial fraud devastates families. Stolen assets in divorce, unauthorized transfers, theft by someone trusted. How to properly document and report it in Texas.
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