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with the Family Legal Protection Plan

Learn about legal benefits, a smart option for your protection.

Product Administered By: Legal Access Plans

You deserve to feel prepared and confident when facing a legal matter. The Family Legal Protection Plan is a robust product offering that protects members when it matters most. Legal Access has been putting people in touch with quality local attorneys and helping solve problems since 1971.

Family Legal Protection Plan

The Family Legal Protection Plan offers exclusive legal benefits. These include discounts, flat rates and covered services for common legal needs experienced by employee members. Identity Theft Prevention & Recovery, Financial Counseling, Budgeting, and Financial Planning benefits are all included with this plan.

The Family Legal Protection Plan is designed with complete family protection in mind. When an employee enrolls in the Family Legal Protection Plan, free coverage is extended to their significant other and all children up to age 23. Specific benefits, including Estate Planning are extended to the employee's parents and significant other's parents.

How Does it Work?

If and when a legal issue arises for a Family Legal Protection Plan member, Legal Access Plans takes immediate action to match the right attorney for the member's specific legal matter. Legal Access Plans has implemented a process and the technology to greatly reduce the high costs and lost time when a legal matter arises. Legal matters can be stressful and Legal Access Plans is there to help every step of the way.

Coverage

The value of Family Legal Protection Plan

Included Legal Benefits:

Initial 30-minute Consultations by phone or in person.
Simple Will or Living Will prepared for eligible family members, one per plan year.
Document Review for many types of legal documents, up to 6 pages in length.
Dispute Resolution to attempt to resolve simple legal disputes, such as a simple contractor dispute.
Guaranteed Reduced Rates – Members receive a 25% discount on Plan Attorney’s hourly rates when legal representation is needed.
Small Claims Court Preparation – Consultation at no additional cost by phone with attorney to help "coach" members on small claims lawsuits.

Exclusive Flat Fee Services:

Traffic Tickets - $89.00
Bankruptcy Chapter 7 - $750.00
Name Change - $155.00
Will with Minor Trust - $170.00
Non-Support (Significant Other/Child) - $239.00
Divorce (Simple) - $210.00
Corporation (Regular) - $239.00
Non-Commercial Real Estate - $175.00

*There may be additional fees such as court costs or filing fees.

Plan Cost

The Family Legal Protection Plan is only $12.00 monthly, via payroll deduction.

Plan Rate

Your benefits include a special plan discount of 25% off of the attorneys' normal hourly rates for all covered services that do not have a special rate or any cost attached to them.

Discounted Contingency Fees

Contingency rate discounts apply in those cases where attorneys customarily take a case on a contingency fee [an agreed upon portion of any recovery to you], depending upon what happens when the case ends.

In some cases, contingency fee maximums are set by state law. In these matters, your fee will be the lower of either 10% less than the maximum fee set by state law or the attorney’s usual fee. For example, if your state has a fee maximum of 30%, you would pay the lower of either 27% or the attorney’s usual fee. If the attorney would normally charge 25%, you would pay this percentage because it is the lower rate.

When state laws do not set contingency fee maximums, your guaranteed discounted rate will not exceed:

29% if settled before trial,
36% if awarded during or after a trial, or
40% after an appellate brief is filed

Consultation & Referral

Your free consultation benefit covers up to thirty (30) minutes in the Plan Attorney's office, over the phone or online with the Plan Attorney. The number of consultations is unlimited, except that each one must be on a different legal matter. Consultations are provided by the local Plan Attorney who is determined to be the best match for your needs by your Personal Access Specialist (PAS).

Document Review*

This benefit is available up to three times each year and can be used for documents that total six pages or less. This can be handled in person with the Plan Attorney, online with the Plan Attorney.

Dispute Resolution Calls & Letters*

If you and your attorney agree that such resolution will likely resolve your matter, you are entitled to have a phone call or a letter made by your Plan Attorney. This benefit is available up to three times each year.

Simple Will

What constitutes a Simple Will varies by state, so it is difficult to give parameters into which your will must fall in order to be covered. This benefit is provided by completing a Will questionnaire which will be reviewed by a local Plan Attorney. You will have the option to include additional information with your basic Will questionnaire and have the Plan Attorney review your situation and make recommendations for other documents that may be helpful. From the time we receive your Will kit there is typically a four to six week turnaround time for your Will to be completed. Your benefits also cover an annual update of your will each year enrolled.

Living Will

If you have a simple will, your benefits also cover a living will for you and your significant other.

Small Claims Court Prepartion Consultation

This benefit is available at no additional charge by phone with the Plan Attorney. Each problem can also be accessed in person with the Plan Attorney or online with the Plan Attorney at a discounted hourly rate.

*If you wish to utilize this benefit you MUST request it when calling our Customer Service Center for the initial referral. This benefit must be authorized prior to calling the Plan Attorney. If you decide after you have already received a referral that you need to utilize this benefit, you must call our Customer Service Center first. Plan Attorneys may not provide this service without authorization.

Definitions

Please read this section carefully to be sure of all of your benefits.

Bankruptcy Chapter 7 includes preparation of the petition, documents, and schedules. Filing fees, court appearances and costs are additional. Attorneys have the option to offer you a single fixed rate, which would include the basic fixed fee plus costs, court time and expenses.

Corporation [Regular] includes preparation of the incorporation documents, articles of incorporation, by laws, and minutes. Does not include filing fees, costs or a corporate kit. Any extended work for the new corporation is not eligible for family plan discounts.

Divorce [Simple] is when the plan member’s spouse is not represented by separate counsel, there are no minor children under age 18, marital assets are less than $80,000 and all issues are agreed to without aid of counsel. This does not include court appearances, the filing or preparation of documents affecting property or costs, or marital settlement agreements or separation agreements.

Eligible Family Members are the plan member’s significant other and unmarried dependent children household who are under the age of 23 and any categorically dependent individuals living in the plan member’s home. The Plan covers the Elder Parents of both the member and their spouse, even if they are not living with the member/spouse.

Name Change obtaining name change for plan members and eligible family members where it is not contested or challenged. This includes preparation and filing of documents only. Court representation, filing fees and costs are an additional fee and are not included. NON-COMMERICAL REAL ESTATE CLOSING includes reviewing purchase or sale agreements, one hour of telephone consultation, and a one hour appearance at closing for the purchase or sale of residential real estate not used for business or investment purposes. Title policy, other documentation and extended consultation (if any) is an additional charge.

Non-Support [Spouse/Child] includes the preparation for and the attendance at a single hearing for judgments or contempt citations for non-payment of alimony, child support or maintenance and one hour of collection efforts after the hearing. Preparation does not include obtaining or discovering evidence, extended court time, and extended collections work.

Plan/Participating Attorneys are licensed and qualified to practice law in your state, are required by the company to maintain professional liability insurance, and have contracted with Legal Access Plans, L.L.C. to provide legal services to plan members as outlined in this Certificate of Coverage for the law areas that they handle and the cases that they accept.

Plan Member is any person who has contracted with Legal Access Plans, L.L.C. for a membership in the plan and has a current paid membership.

Simple Will a will distributing personal property and homestead generally and not involving trusts, specific bequests, real estate, tax matters, guardianships, living wills, health care proxy, or partitions.

Will with Simple Minor’s Trust a simple will with a minor’s trust for the surviving minor children of the plan member. This will is eligible for the guaranteed low fixed fee. It does not cover other kinds of trusts, complex tax matters, administration or estate planning. These additional estate planning matters can be handled under the guaranteed low hourly rate.

Complex Will means the member has a significant net worth and will benefit from tax planning, or the estate is subject to current state or federal estate taxation; the Member owns a business that will continue in operation after death; the Member wants to put restrictions on what heirs may do with the property; the Member wants to leave money to someone in a trust because the person cannot manage his or her own affairs (such as a mentally handicapped child), or wants the property to be managed by a trustee for a period of time past the child’s age of majority, to age 25 or 30, for example; the Member thinks that someone will challenge the will; and/or the Member wants to exclude any lawful dependents.

Traffic Defense generally includes the preparation of court documents and attendance at a one-time only court hearing to settle the issue. Does not include court costs, fines, additional hearings or other related expenses. Does not apply in jurisdictions that consider traffic offenses to be criminal matters.

Term The term of this plan is for one year and this plan will automatically renew without any action on your part for successive periods. However, should you desire to terminate this coverage, you may give 30 days’ written notice of termination at any time this plan is in effect. If you decide to terminate, you may call us for instructions on how to send the written notice. Once we received it, we will terminate your coverage effective on the last day of the next full month after written notice is received. No refund of any monies prior to this period id contemplated under this Plan.

Network

About the Network of Attorneys

When going in for surgery, you don’t want a surgeon that has a poor track record or only a couple years experience. We feel that a legal need is just as important.

Help Focus Infrastructure

When it comes to finding an attorney, an employee can waste days looking for the right one, even with a legal plan. Our process has a Help Focus Infrastructure. We focus on our relationships with our Providers to help us help your employees, faster. Our Attorney Match Technology and dialogue with attorneys and members ensures the right help the first time. Matching an employee to the right help expedites solutions while saving time and stress.

Standards and Qualifications

The credentialing standards that we utilize to vet our providers is the most stringent in the country. We focus on years of experience, as well as insurance and discipline, as well as penalty of perjury submissions with extensive back ground checks.

Under the Provider Network, your employees will receive legal help from professionals with many of these service characteristics:

Experience in the Legal Matter Needed
Quality Time Spent in Consultations
Years of Legal Training and Experience
Up-to-date Legal Training Each Year
Lawyers Who are Service-Oriented
Lawyers Who Have a Solid Local Reputation in their Communities
Exceptional Backgrounds
Years of Courtroom and Trial Experience

Provider Standards of Care

The Network Provider shall strive to provide the highest quality of legal representation and service to Plan Members.

Plan Providers agree to the following:

To comply at all times with the Rules of Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure and the Rules of Professional Conduct applicable to the jurisdiction.
To return member's calls promptly, within one business day, and communicate with members such that a member and the member's family do not voice substantiated concerns over promptness or frequency of your or your firm's communication.
To not enter continuances, adjournments, or the like without the member's comfort and consent.
To not arrange for substitutions or stand-ins unless the member has been previously advised and that the member understands that you remain responsible for the case and to contact you if there is any concern or if proceedings do not go as planned.
To always respect a member, their needs and family.
To maintain a professional office, in staffing and appearance.
To fully explain yourself such that a member has an understanding for the reasons behind your recommendations and suggestions, even if a member may not hire your firm.
To not complete any additional work that will result in a fee to the member, where not covered by the member's plan, until a fee arrangement is fully understood by the member and there is a written agreement.
To help each member individually and ensure that everything you do is in the interest of the member.
To notify Legal Access Plans if there is or may be the possibility of a conflict of interest or violation of ethical codes.
To notify Legal Access Plans if there may be a misunderstanding or potential service issue where there may be a complaint without breaking any client confidences.
To direct any grievances or concerns, such as process procedure or billing, to Legal Access and not a member.
To not refer any member to another attorney without the knowledge and consent of Legal Access if you cannot assist.
To take responsibility and uphold the highest standards of customer service delivered by any and all firm staff or employees that have interaction with members.
To communicate and cooperate with Legal Access Plans on any concern, inquiry or issue and return any communication from Legal Access within one business day.

About

We are here to serve you...

We believe people deserve to have a sense of safety and security, a peace of mind, when it comes to being protected in legal matters that they may not be the experts in. To have access to legal professionals that can ease and solve their legal burdens. We are here to serve you.

How we do it is by providing an in-depth pool of resources to accommodate all your legal needs. Legal Access and LegalEASE have broad experiences with employees in small, medium and large companies in the public and private sectors, local, state and federal government offices, unions, employee assistance plans, work-life companies, and organizations, when it comes to solving your legal matters.

What we do is provide value by creating unparalleled access to a network of skilled attorneys to cover your legal needs with options in convenient plans. We are a diversified employee benefits company engaged in administration, network development, technology management and insurance, based in Houston, Texas. Since 1971, we have grown from five attorneys in Los Angeles providing services to a modest amount of companies into a company with the strongest attorney network across America. We provide assistance to members over half of a million times each year throughout the United States and the world.

Legal Access Companies consists of several companies and brands to best meet customer needs, including but not limited to: Legal Plans USA, Legal Access Plans, LegalEASE, and LAMG. Legal Access Plans has a wide array of products across several market segements, including worksite, employee assistance and worklife.