Greetings from USLegal, and welcome to our April Newsletter.
This spring, we’re examining our (industry leading) customer service department and finding even better ways to do what we do best. We’ll spill a few details below.
In our efforts to offer unmatched excellence in the online legal services industry, a recurring benchmark is the TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award, which we are once again proud to claim for 2010. We told you last month, and we’re crowing about it one more time.
Our multifaceted approach to legal services now features USLegal Law Support for your firm or company, including legal research, briefs, memos, state surveys, document preparation and more. See below for details.
Have a small business, or thinking of starting one? Dave Ramsey is praising our Small Business Forms Packages. Read on.
At USLegal, customer satisfaction is our greatest asset and goal. If we’ve made your legal life easier, please tell your friends and family about us. If you have a routine legal need, make us your first stop. And now, our news:
Improve Our Legendary Customer Service? Yes We Can!
From the start, we’ve built our business on our 100% customer satisfaction guarantee. To that end, our customer service department is second to none, and home to some of the longest serving people in our company. We’re adding a new phone system to serve you better, expanding our staff to man those phones and our live chat support for longer hours and on weekends, and tapping the experience of our veteran employees to streamline our training and procedures. We are NOT your typical customer service experience. Call us, toll free: 1-877-389-0141.
USLegalForms.com Ranked FIRST Among Legal Forms Sites - Five Years Running
For the FIFTH year in a row, USLegalForms.com has won the Gold Award for Online Legal Forms Service bestowed annually by independent consumer-help web site TopTenREVIEWS. USLegalForms.com received the Gold Award for ranking first among eleven legal forms web sites examined and compared by the researchers at TopTenREVIEWS. Click the link to see their detailed analysis.
USLegal Law Support: Legal Research, Briefs, Memos, State Surveys, Document Preparation and More - For Your Firm or Company
Not only does USLegal provide forms individually and by subscription, we also provide legal research and other outsourcing services to large and small law firms, as well as corporate clients large or small.
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Dave Ramsey Recommends: USLF Small Business Forms Packages
Dave Ramsey is a nationally recognized expert and advocate in the fields of personal finance and business management. We are proud that Dave recommends our products. This spring, he’s highlighted our Small Business Forms Packages. Click to view.
“I’ve been endorsing US Legal Forms for several years now. The fact is I don’t put my name behind anything if I don’t believe in it. U.S. Legal Forms is the only company I recommend for your low cost, state specific legal forms. If you want to save time and money, there’s no better choice than US Legal Forms.com.”
- Dave Ramsey, on The Dave Ramsey Show
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Legal News In Brief
We track breaking legal news at the USLegal Reporter. Check in regularly to stay updated on top national legal stories. The following are snippets from some of the items of interest we’ve spotted in the last month. Check the above link for our full reports:
Appeals Court Rules Against FCC in ‘Net Neutrality’ Lawsuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission does not have authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic on their networks. The case involved an appeal by Comcast over an FCC sanction for interfering with high-bandwidth peer-to-peer traffic. The FCC sought to ban the company from blocking its broadband subscribers from using an online file-sharing technology known as BitTorrent. … (continue reading at the Reporter)
Lawyer Must Pay for Banning Service Animal from Law Firm
A lawyer who banned a service animal from accompanying a brain-damaged woman to a deposition will pay the woman a $40,000 settlement, as well as a $10,000 civil penalty. Attorney Patric LeHouillier of Colorado Springs will also train his staff on compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act and post a sign at his law firm stating the service animals are welcome. The complainant, a veterinarian, had trained her Australian Shepherd to help her with balance, vision and hearing. The complaint alleged that LeHouillier refused to permit the dog in the firm because he was afraid it would soil the newly installed carpet. … (continue reading at the Reporter)
Wife Wins $9 Million from Husband’s Mistress
A woman in North Carolina sued her husband’s mistress for alienation of affections and the jury returned a verdict for $9 million against the mistress. The award was based on $5 million in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages. Cynthia Shackelford, age 60, hired an investigator and discovered the affair. She decided to sue the mistress, Anne Lundquist, age 49, for breaking up her marriage of 33 years. Shackelford claimed that Lundquist pursued her husband, while knowing he was a married man. Lundquist claims the marriage was broken before the affair began. Alienation of affections is a legal claim that has been considered outdated and alienation of affections statutes have been repealed in the majority of states. North Carolina is one of only 7 states … (continue reading at the Reporter)
Check out controversial legal issues of all stripes with us at the USLegal Blog. Our newest blog entry takes on five current issues so controversial that having an opinion may be hazardous! So tell us yours in the comments section! (Your comment will be posted the following morning if made at night, or later in the day if posted during the day.) Now go ahead and click the link.
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