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| Are Pre-paid services worth the money? |
| You may be covered when it comes to health, life, car or home insurance… but what about legal coverage? The question is not if you'll need a lawyer, but when: according to the American Bar Association (ABA) “Americans have come to view legal assistance as a necessity”. Yet, most A |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Benefits of Pre-paid legal plans |
| Pre-paid legal services can be a very attractive alternative to hiring a lawyer for many people. You should consider the importance and relative priority of these benefits in light of your own legal needs. So what are the benefits going pre-paid compared to conventional hire of lawyers? Benefit Numb |
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| Benefits of Pre-paid legal plan for your company |
| Employers are on the hunt - researching benefit tools that are low-cost, easily administered and satisfy their employees’ needs. One such tool is pre-paid group insurance. We examine the benefits of having such a work-benefit option from an employer’s perspective. The first benefit emplo |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Common Services offered by Pre-paid legal Plans |
| Considering a pre-paid legal plan? He’s a run-down of the services you’re most likely to get and also some legal documents you need to sign before you enrol. Telephone and Office Consultation: You have unlimited telephone access to a panel of attorneys regarding any legal matter of inter |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Differences between Pre-Paid and Legal Plans |
| It is not uncommon to see the terms “legal plans” and “pre-paid legal services” used interchangeably. While they share a lot of characteristics in common, there are a number of differences you should be aware of. Both of these terms refer to an arrangement whereby you pay a f |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| How to choose an attorney? |
| Throughout the course of your legal problems, you will have to make some tough decisions – If you were involved in an accident then you have to choose between bringing criminal damages or press with a plaintiff case, if you have a small business and you were involved in a deal, then you have t |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| How to enrol for a legal plan? |
| Are you thinking of getting on the pre-paid bandwagon? Choosing a particular enrolment method can be very important in determining the benefits, costs and conditions of coverage of your legal plan. A voluntary enrolment refers to a membership of a legal plan where people “voluntarily” su |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Legal plans: An Intro |
| What if you could pick up the phone and call an attorney to get advice about any and all legal matters of interest to you? The attorney would draft your will, review it and update it for every other year, make phone calls and write letters on your behalf negotiate your contracts and represent you in |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Limitations of Pre-Paid Legal Services |
| Pre-paid legal plans are promoted under the promise of cheap legal coverage, an attractive alternative to the high fees charged by regular attorneys and law practices. But under the gloss of accessible legal services for the general public, lie a number of limitations. First, there is a limit on the |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Look before you take the leap into pre-paid legal services |
| These are some of the question you should ask if you are considering a pre-paid legal plan. What is covered? Legal plans are offered in different models and differ in the specifics of what they cover. While phone consultation and simple drafting and reviewing of simple contracts are included across |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Pre-paid legal plans? You can get them for free! |
| They say the best things in life are free. In the case of pre-paid legal plans, this may just hold true. Pre-paid legal plans offer a range of legal services on-call for a fixed monthly charge of up to $25 per month. With such a low monthly payment, most people are only too happy to get a legal cove |
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| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Pre-paid legal services for small business |
| If you are operating your own business, you cannot afford to go it alone when it comes to legal matters. The ever increasing complexities of law, spiralling costs of lawsuits and the proliferation of government red tape can land you in a lot of trouble. The flip of the coin is hardly attractive eith |
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| Prepaid and Small Business |
| Legal advice for small businesses does not have to be expensive. With pre-paid legal plans, a wide array of legal services designed specifically to cater for the needs of small businesses is available for a set yearly fee ranging from $125 to $300. Although coverage differs across the board, most pr |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Pre-paid legal plans promote preventive law. |
| Many people believe they need the services of a lawyer, under a pre-paid legal service scheme, to solve a legal problem or resolve an intricate situation. Often, your lawyer’s most valuable help could be before you get involved in legal trouble. When you sign up for a pre-paid legal plan, you |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| The access legal plan |
| Pre-paid legal plans come in a variety of types depending on the scope of legal coverage they provide. The most basic pre-paid plan is designed to make the simple legal services readily available to the general public at low cost. These plans typically cost between $10 and $30 per month, billed in a |
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| Types of Legal Plans |
| A prepaid legal plan is a scheme based on the payment in advance of a set fee to defray the cost of providing future legal services to the members enrolled in the scheme. They vary in cost, scope of legal coverage provided and how the legal services are provided. We will look at the different types |
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| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Types of Prepaid Legal Services |
| Over 100 million Americans are signed up for pre-paid legal services. Also called legal insurance, these plans are similar to those provided by Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and cover the legal needs of the member, spouse and any dependent children. In a prepaid legal service plan, the cus |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Who is involved in Legal services? |
| When you subscribe to a pre-paid legal service, you are likely to deal with an attorney and a number of other individuals and organisations who are involved in one way or another with the service. It’s important to understand the role of each participating party in a legal service plan, partic |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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| Who regulates pre-paid legal plans? |
| Pre-paid legal service providers are required to provide either a written agreement of the services provided in their plans, or at least a written communication concerning the services covered, together with the fees to be charged for services not covered in the written agreement of membership. Howe |
| Author: Cliff Matthew |
| Directory: Attorneys - Pre-Paid Legal |
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