Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Wisconsin

Unfortunately, you are unlikely to avoid dismissal on your own, because summary judgment and other civil litigation procedures are too complex for non-professionals to navigate successfully (and, as you noted about your prior lawyer, are even difficult for some lawyers). In a nutshell, however, summary judgment can be granted when there is no longer any issue of material fact in dispute. This is only logical, since it would be silly to proceed to a trial if you have already admitted all the facts needed for the other side to win. If you still contest some of these facts (or have failed to properly dispute them in your discovery answers), your goal now would be to correct that situation, although there is no way for me to advise exactly how you should do that now, without reviewing the entire pasts court record in your case. I wish you the best of luck, although I sincerely doubt that you will be successful without representation by an experienced civil litigation attorney.

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