If you are worried about getting your money back and/or want an attorney to "win" your case, you missed the whole point of execising your personal sovereignty. If you need assistance of counsel, that is one thing. And an attorney can actually help you if he or she wants to. But if you don't know how to direct them, they are not going to tell you how to get YOUR issue heard before the opposition's issues are addressed. The attorney works for the judge, even though you might be paying him. So you need to exercise YOUR court. It can be done through the process. But you have to see that your helpers are doing what you want them to. Otherwise they will want to either cut a deal and move on or bleed your bank account dry as they "practice" on your dime. The problem, and the solution to those problems, lies with the person you see in the mirror.
Remember, I am talking about jurisprudence, not politics. So when your policy is to question every move your government agents make, you use the law. Jurisprudence is the science of law.
As my brother often tells me, "If you want someone to do it for you, they'll always do it to you."