Lawyers Using Internet to Actually Help People

The Huffington post posted a great article titled "Delivering Social Good via Technology as Economy Collapses" It is all about two great organizations that help provide free legal help to those in need. They are Law Help and Pro Bono Net.

If anyone is looking for free legal advice check these org's out, they are both nonprofits turely trying to help people.

 

This sounds like a great service. It benefits people in trouble and also the lawyers getting some experience.

 

That's great, not everybody can afford to pay for legal advise when they need one.

 

Nice to see something like that being done. The reputation of lawyers in general could use all the help it can get.

Thanks for the links.

 

Most lawyers are good people. It is to bad it only takes one or two bad ones out of 1000 to give them all a bad rep.

 

2 out of 1000, you're being too kind.

 

Maybe so but I have, as yet, to meet a lawyer who is also a good person. The real purpose of having a lawyer is to defend yourself against other lawyers and not always to defend yourself against other people.

 

Nice to hear that they are being available on the internet too!
Present i don't need any legal advice!
If i need any legal advice in the future then i will contact!

 

There are plenty of lawyers that are good people. Most of the lawyers I know are. What other professions require all active members to donate over 100 hours of free work a year. Most States Bar associations require there members to do over 100 hours of probono work.

 

thats really great !! I was looking for something like that .. let me give it a try

 

I've met and worked with enough lawyers to stand by my statement. Yes, I'm sure there are good people who are lawyers but I've never met one. My current lawyer has saved me big bucks but he also tried to talk me into divorcing my wife and use him for doing so. I've spent about $25K defending myself against lawyers bringing lawsuits against me that were thrown out as, to quote one judge, "stupidity on their behalf". Someone once sued me for racial discrimination because I wouldn't honor an expired coupon. Where do you find a lawyer to take that? An employee sued me for sexual harassment because I told her to go home and rest because she, literally, could no longer stand on her feet and had to wear bunny slippers to work (she was 9 months pregnant). She claimed I fired her. Where do you find a lawyer for that?

The lawyer I had then stretched those cases over many months costing me big time. Worked for a respectable firm, too. My current lawyer got all my business when he wrapped it all up with 3 phone calls from 3PM to 5:30PM one afternoon telling the other, essentially, to get lost, they weren't getting anything.

While preying on the hard working business people and grasping at every opportunity to "settle", with no intention of ever going to court cause they know that's too expensive for their victim.

What other profession actively seeks out others to drag them to court for the sole purpose of getting money, not to stop or reverse a wrong? What other profession has "plants" and "contacts" inside corporations actively seeking out such business?

Yeah. There's a few good people who are lawyers, too.

 

How do you know when a lawyer (here in Australia, solicitor or barrister) is lying?

 

When his mouth is moving.

 

An oldie but a goodie.

 

Good for them.
A friend of mine set up a site offering legal advice (criminal uk law) and it produced so much interest but couldn't keep it going as keeping it up-to-date with all the changes being made to the law all the time was very time-consuming, plus he was absolutely inundated with emails from people asking for advice. Problem was, it really didn't create any revenue as a site and he needed to earn an income of some kind.

So, as I say - good for them!

 

Good for them.
A friend of mine set up a site offering legal advice (criminal uk law) and it produced so much interest but couldn't keep it going as keeping it up-to-date with all the changes being made to the law all the time was very time-consuming, plus he was absolutely inundated with emails from people asking for advice. Problem was, it really didn't create any revenue as a site and he needed to earn an income of some kind.

So, as I say - good for them!

 

thanks. this will come in handy for me later on