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with the Family Legal Protection Plan
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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 the spouse and all children up to age 23. Specific benefits, including Estate Planning are extended to the employee's parents and spouse'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
- 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.
- Traffic Tickets - $89.00
- Bankruptcy Chapter 7 - $750.00
- Name Change - $155.00
- Will with Minor Trust - $170.00
- Non-Support (Spouse/Child) - $239.00
- Divorce (Simple) - $210.00
- Corporation (Regular) - $239.00
- Non-Commercial Real Estate - $175.00
- 29% if settled before trial,
- 36% if awarded during or after a trial, or
- 40% after an appellate brief is filed
Financial Benefits
- Unlimited number of consultations
- One half hour per new topic
- Personal financial tune-up
- Review goals/objectives
- Reduced rates for continuing sessions
- 24 hours a day website access services
- Complete access financial website
- No fees for information or web access
- Interactive website calculators
- Complete online discussions of financial concepts
- Additional online legal library of credit and collection information
- Unlimited number of consultations
- One half hour per new topic
- Consider preparing a personal family budget
- Receive help in the preparation of a personal family budget
- Complete debt chart with/for counselor
- Understanding solutions for credit problems
- Unlimited number of consultations
- One question per submission
- Provide information about saving money, paying off debt
- Obtain assistance in resolving credit issues
- Complete debt chart with/for counselor
- Organize assets/expenses
- Getting relief from creditors/collection agency harassment
- Consider debt consolidation
Network
- 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
- 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.