Small Business Legal Plan

For as little as $24.97 a month you can have access to a nationwide network of attorneys for all your business legal needs.

The rising costs of legal services and the overall running of a business has made it very difficult for business owners to make ends meet. The Platinum Legal Club helps alleviate some of that financial pressure by providing business owners with access to a nationwide network of pre-qualified attorneys that will provide them with free and discounted legal care.

Benefit Features

When you become a Platinum Legal Club member, your business becomes a corporate member of Platinum Legal Club’s Small Business Plan. The plan has been designed and tailored for the small business owner.

Free Legal Services*

Unlimited initial phone consultations during business hours for new legal matters.
Attorney will review as many as 5 independent documents each quarter. These include business documents, contracts, signed or unsigned, up to 10 pages each.
Initial telephone calls made on behalf of your business if deemed appropriate by your plan attorney (two per month). Follow up calls are made at the guaranteed low hourly rate.
Initial letters written on behalf of your business if deemed appropriate by your plan attorney. Three per month for new subjects; follow up letters are written at the guaranteed low hourly rate.
Initial collection letters are limited to 10 per quarter. More than 10, and any follow up letters, are written at the guaranteed low hourly rate or at the contingency fee percentage, depending upon what you and your plan attorney decide.
One on one consultations for each new legal matter. Thirty minute time limit per subject matter. Time over the 30 minutes per subject will be at the guaranteed low hourly rate.
Registered Agent for your business in the state in which you are incorporated as well as other states where you do business.

*In certain situations, attorney liability may require plan attorneys to ask for a retainer from the member prior to providing some of the free Legal Services.

Detailed Legal Services definitions can be found in Section 3 of the Plan Guidebook.

Guaranteed Low Hourly Rates** – Plan attorneys have contracted to charge no more than $125.00 per hour, or 40% off their usual and customary hourly rate, whichever is greater, for legal care that goes beyond the free and discounted services described above. In most cases, the attorneys will be able to estimate the amount of hours any given case may consume prior to beginning work on the case.

Retainers** – In the case of extended legal care, plan attorneys may ask you for a retainer. Any retainer sought will be computed by multiplying the number of hours a plan attorney believes a case will take, by the appropriate discounted hourly plan rate. For instance, 10 hours x $125.00 = a retainer of $1,250. Any unused portion of the retainer will be returned to the member.

Contingency Fee Discounts** – Attorneys often work on a contingency fee basis on such cases as personal injury and collections. This fee is usually expressed as a percentage of the amount collected or awarded. In collection matters, your attorney will accept 18% if the case is settled before formal court proceedings begin. After proceedings begin, the fee is 27%. On all other contingency matters there is a 10% discount on the lower of either the state maximum or the attorney’s standard rate.

** Court costs, filing fees and time charged for travel to and from any courts are additional.

Compare Platinum Legal Business Plan ($24.97/mo) to
Legal Shield Business Plan ($39.00/mo)…

Platinum Legal Business Plan	Legal Shield Business Plan
40% off usual hourly rate	25% off usual hourly rate
Phone consults unlimited, regardless of amount of new matters, or type of business matters domestic, or out of state matters	Phone consults limited to only matters not on exclusion list. * see Exclusion list
Unlimited one on one consults	NOT OFFERED ON THIS PLAN
Up to 30 letters per year	Up to 20 letters per year
Up to 20 docs reviewed per year – in all 50 states	Up to 20 docs reviewed per year – max 1 out of state
Up to 40 collections letters per year	Up to 60 collection letters per year
Resident agents in every state in which you do business	NOT OFFERED ON THIS PLAN
For profit Business	For profit Business
Non profit Businesses	NOT OFFERED ON THIS PLAN
Unlimited Employees	Limited to 10 employees

*Exclusion List Below (matters on list below are capped at 3 telephone calls per year)

Securities
Patents
Copyrights
Antitrust
Immigration

Import/export or customs matters
Issues arising outside your state, within U.S.
Commodities
Trademarks
Admiralty

International Law
Tax
Intellectual Property

Member is eligible to receive one document review each Membership Year regarding domestic legal issues concerning out of state on above matters.

The hiring of a lawyer is an important decision. Before hiring the lawyer to whom you may be referred, ask the attorney for written information about the lawyer’s qualifications and experience.