Part 5: The Lack of Concrete Information Today we will be concluding The Missing Piece Series by going over the fourth challenge that employees face when they enter the American Legal System: lack of knowledge and the difficulties of the client/attorney relationship. Part 1: Vast Differences in Expectations Different expectations about the American Legal System leads to much stress and worry when an employee finds out their attorney is often not as available to help as the employee expects. By understanding these differences, both employees and their HR managers and companies can better...

Here at LegalEASE, a LEGAL ACCESS Company, we like to keep our readers informed of any scams that we may discover. David Kunkle , our Desktop Support Specialist, recently received several suspicious phone calls. The callers stated that they were from Dell Tech Support and that David’s PC was infected with malicious software. These fishy calls caused David to hang up instead of speaking to the caller. Unfortunately, scams such as these have become more and more prevalent for both businesses and individuals. The callers identify themselves as tech support from well-known companies like Dell and...

Part 3: The High and Unexpected Cost of Legal Help At the beginning of the Missing Piece Series, we stated that employee stress directly affected by personal legal crises and emergencies is an undiscussed factor of employee and financial wellness. In the second part , we examined the stress caused by the legal problem itself. In this part of the Missing Piece Series, we consider the factor of the high and unexpected cost of legal help for your employees. A fundamental stress producer inherent in the American legal system is high attorney fees and repeated delays that can cause legal expenses to skyrocket. This second challenge has three sub-parts: the lack of an emergency fund to pay for legal fees; the inherent and seemingly unnecessary delays that cause the legal bill to escalate; and the often unfounded but prevalent expectation the opposing party will pay all legal fees if the employee is not at fault in a lawsuit.

Imagine you’re driving home one day and you get a call. Because you’re a responsible driver, you don’t pick up the phone and let it go to voicemail. But the message you hear is daunting. “Hello, we have made several attempts to reach you. This call is officially a final notice from the Internal Revenue Service. The reason for this call is to inform you that the IRS is filing a lawsuit against you. An urgent callback is necessary.” 1 Even our very own CEO, Robert Heston, Jr. , received one these calls. However, he was not taken in because he knew that the IRS will always send a written...