Trial Defense Services
Lawsuits cause tremendous emotional and financial stress. Your Pre-Paid Legal membership offers assistance when you need it most. Up to 75 hours of lawyer time...During your first membership year, you have up to 75 hours of your Provider Lawyer's time at no additional cost when you or your spouse is named defendant or respondent in a covered civil or criminal action filed in a court of law. The criminal action must be one which arises out of the direct performance of the covered person's employment activities. Your Provider Firm can advise you of the documents required to determine coverage under this benefit. Of these 75 hours, up to 17.5 hours may be used for all legal services rendered in defense of the covered suit prior to actual trial. Up to 57.5 of the remaining hours are available for actual trial time including covered criminal preliminary hearings. Your hours of service increase...When you renew your membership, your hours of lawyer time increase as follows: 2nd year renewal: Up to 140 hours of assistance at no additional charge including up to 23 hours of pre-trial time. 3rd year renewal: Up to 205 hours of assistance at no additional charge including up to 28.5 hours of pre-trial time. 4th year renewal: Up to 270 hours of assistance at no additional charge including up to 34 hours of pre-trial time. 5th year renewal: Up to 335 hours of assistance at no additional charge including up to 39.5 hours of pre-trial time.
Sponsored By
Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson
Adopted
Summer Meeting
June 17-19, 2008
Resolution
IN SUPPORT OF THE CONCEPT OF PREPAID LEGAL SERVICES PLANS
WHEREAS the National Association of Attorneys General is an organization of the chief legal
officers of all fifty states and additional territories, including the District of Columbia; and
WHEREAS all Attorneys General have a deep interest in the legal welfare of the citizens of their
respective jurisdictions; and
WHEREAS Attorneys General have a particular interest consumer protection issues and keenly
aware of the victimization of the consumers in their respective jurisdictions by unscrupulous practices and intentional fraud; and
WHEREAS while Attorneys General are able to assist many citizens with consumer issues, many others are directed to private counsel because
their situation does not fall within the jurisdiction of the A.G., and many of those, unfortunately, do not have private counsel available to them; and
WHEREAS those individuals who have access to prepaid legal services plans are able to access an
attorney in time of need and are further able to access the advice and counsel of an attorney in advance of need and thus are able to practice "preventive law" in the same manner as "preventive medicine"; and
WHEREAS the American Bar Association has long supported prepaid legal services plans because they:
1.Are important to maintaining the confidence in our justice system and the rule of law.
2.Efficiently and inexpensively provide preventive legal services to low and middle income Americans
3.Ease the burden on overtaxed government programs.
4.Enhance productivity by allowing employees to focus on their jobs, not their legal troubles.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL, DULY CONVENED
That the National Association of Attorneys General joins the American Bar Association in supporting the concept of prepaid legal services plan.
