THE ISSUE
There is a glut of attorneys in certain practice and metro areas, yet there is only 1 legal aid attorney for every 10,000 Americans who cannot afford one.
Rural areas in the United States face widespread attorney shortages.
Public defenders juggle up to 150 criminal cases at a time. In some states, poor misdemeanor defendants have NO access to counsel.
Citizens facing civil & criminal actions are denied adequate counsel, information, and access to justice.
OUR APPROACH
We focus on innovative & interactive formats to simplify legal knowledge & information, delivering our content & services via multiple channels, including:
Invite-only online events that focus on legal & civil rights
Web consultations & virtual coaching covering specific legal rights topics
Online chats, which provide answers to your legal rights questions online and are designed to accommodate quick and general questions involving the law & your rights
Text-based answers to your legal questions delivered to your mobile phone via SMS
Constantly updated infographics, videos, & interactive content covering a variety of legal & civil rights topics
Smart Forms, which guide you through complex legal questions & processes, giving individualized answers to questions based on your location and circumstance and allowing you to create customized documents
Our legal information and service platform [LISP] is available to anyone from any location, but given our focus on socially and geographically-vulnerable people, we base our content and services on the laws of states
where the need for justicial services is great yet largely unmet. As such, presently Pocket Lawyer LISP is most applicable to residents of and those currently in the following states:
ALABAMA | ARIZONA | ARKANSAS |
MISSISSIPPI | MISSOURI | NEW JERSEY |
SOUTH DAKOTA |
In order for us to provide interactive content and service, a visitor may be asked to provide an email address or other information to us; however, this does not propagate an attorney-client relationship between any visitor and Pocket Lawyer