My Judge Alex episode, good lesson on the importance of a written contract

The importance of written contracts. If I would have got it in writing on day one it would not have taken me an entire year to get my money.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQdZ8-y2sQs

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIFMPTdYeo

The usual questions that come up:

Did you get your money? Yes, one of the incentives of being on the show as a Plaintiff is an appearance payment and the show cuts the check to me instead of me having to deal with the defendant any more. The day of the taping I got my appearance check of $250, then three weeks later got my judgment check.

How much was made up? Not a single word was made up, in fact they cut out the funniest part about him not even being able to make up a name. My room mate said "Are you Peter? I'm Mark." Peter said "Um... I am um... Mark too." The show did not know if they could use my room mate's name so they cut it out to be sure, even though they could have.

Was it staged? Not completely. There are 17 minutes to be taped so on my podium there was a computer screen that the producer would put the key points of my case and notes. If I was going too fast it would say something like "go into detail" or too slow it would say "get to the signing of the contract". I timed myself very well and the producer even mentioned I did better than anyone she has had in there. A compliment, but if you watch any of the other episodes the people on there aren't the brightest.

Hope you enjoyed it.