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Be fully prepared and confident

with the Family Protection Plus Plan

Learn about legal benefits, a smart option for your protection.

Product Administered By: Legal Access Plans

You deserve to feel prepared and confident when facing a legal matter. The Family Protection Plus 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 Protection Plus Plan

The Family Protection Plus Plan offers exclusive legal benefits. These include discounts, flat rates and covered services for common legal needs experienced by employee members.

The Family Protection Plus Plan is designed with complete family protection in mind. When an employee enrolls in the Family Protection Plus Plan, free coverage is extended to their significant other and all children up to age 23. Specific benefits, including Estate Planning are extended to the employee's parents and significant other's parents.

How Does it Work?

If and when a legal issue arises for a Family Protection Plus 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

The value of Family Protection Plus Plan

Included Legal Benefits:

Unless a special rate or fee service applies, all legal representation on covered legal matters is offered at a 25% discount off the Network Attorney's normal billing rate
Simple Living Will with annual updates
Living Will substitution for Simple Will
One-on-one consultations for new legal matters
Unlimited phone consultations (for each new legal matter)
Phone calls made and letters written on your behalf
Assistance in solving your problems with government programs
Helpful advice on representing yourself in small claims court
Attorney review of legal documents (up to 6 pages) per new matter
Discounted Contingency Fees

Exclusive Flat Fee Services:

Traffic Tickets - $89.00
Name Change - $155.00
Real Estate Closing - $250.00
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy - $750.00
Simple Divorce - $275.00
Simple Will with Minor's Trust - $250.00
Non-Support Order Modifcation (Spouse/Child) - $239.00
Regular Incorporation - $295.00

*There may be additional fees such as court costs or filing fees.

Who's Covered?

Eligible family members are the plan member's significant other and unmarried dependent children who are under the age of 23 and any categorically dependent individuals living in the plan member's home. This plan covers the elder parents of both the member and their spouse, even if they are not living with the member/spouse.

Network

About the Network of Attorneys

When going in for surgery, you don’t want a surgeon that has a poor track record or only a couple years experience. We feel that a legal need is just as important.

Help Focus Infrastructure

When it comes to finding an attorney, an employee can waste days looking for the right one, even with a legal plan. Our process has a Help Focus Infrastructure. We focus on our relationships with our Providers to help us help your employees, faster. Our Attorney Match Technology and dialogue with attorneys and members ensures the right help the first time. Matching an employee to the right help expedites solutions while saving time and stress.

Standards and Qualifications

The credentialing standards that we utilize to vet our providers is the most stringent in the country. We focus on years of experience, as well as insurance and discipline, as well as penalty of perjury submissions with extensive back ground checks.

Under the Provider Network, your employees will receive legal help from professionals with many of these service characteristics:

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

Provider Standards of Care

The Network Provider shall strive to provide the highest quality of legal representation and service to Plan Members.

Plan Providers agree to the following:

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.