First and foremost, we believe in serving clients’ needs and employing the latest in legal technology to support those needs.  We are here to help you secure your financial future and preserve your family’s legacy with contemporary online Illinois estate and trust planning and small business organization and succession planning services.

Our Approach to Online Legal Services

If you recognize the phrase “do not fold, spindle or mutilate”, you are probably a contemporary of mine. I started my legal career at the Continental Bank in Chicago, Illinois, then one of the largest national banks, in its Estate and Trust Department. We used the latest computer technology and software to provide estate and trust planning and administration services to wealthy individuals and families. The “latest” then consisted of room-size computers, housed in large refrigerated rooms, and IBM key-punched programming cards that wouldn’t work if “folded, spindled or mutilated.” Nobody at the time could conceive of desktop computing, much less the Internet which today provides all consumers with instant and immediate access to every kind of information, product and service.

• Our service is built on an Internet platform that provides you with:
• Service on demand;
• A wider choice of services (more service options);
• Competitive fixed fees;
• 24/7 access to personal account and private files (information, documents, charges, etc).

Note: consumers now have expectations, with all of the free legal information and copycat forms on the Internet, that it is not necessary to consult a lawyer for legal advice. The reality is that a single incorrect clause can render a document invalid.  Legal form web sites don’t inform you of the negative consequences of choosing one clause over the other.

My approach is to bundle legal documents with legal advice for a fixed fee so that here you get the protection that only a lawyer can provide.

There’s real truth in the old proverb: “He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”

How Our System Works

• We help Illinois individuals and small businesses deal with their legal problems without spending thousands of dollars in legal fees, or resorting to non-lawyer alternatives like LegalZoom.
• We offer legal forms bundled with legal advice for a fixed fee.
• We also offer traditional legal service that we bill either on a fixed fee basis per project, or by the hour, depending on the matter and the type of legal problem.
• Our online services provides you with a convenient alternative to a typical lawyer-client  transaction. After you register with our site you will have access to your own MyLegalAffairs web site.
• Within this secure space you can purchase the legal services that we offer and your entire transaction can be conducted online.
• To purchase a legal form bundled with legal advice you start by completing an on-line questionnaire. You can start your questionnaire for free without paying a fee.
• When you are ready, you can save your data and you can purchase our service with a credit card online.
• I will communicate with you by telephone, email, or Skype, if you wish, and provide any legal advice you need to make sure that your intentions and expectations are satisfied.

Only a Law Firm Can Give You Legal Advice

A forms company cannot provide you with legal advice and adds very little for the fees they charge, such as making sure that you spell your name correctly!