LegalShield Unveils New Features in Its Acclaimed Mobile App
March 17 2018 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Updated App for iOS and Android Puts the Power
of a Law Firm in the Palm of Your Hand; Adds Valuable New Legal
Services
LegalShield, one of North America’s leading providers of
affordable legal plans and the IDShield identity theft solution for
individuals, families and small businesses, has begun its We Are
LegalShield Convention at the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma
City. This year’s five-day event began on March 14 and brings
together LegalShield’s experienced, new and aspiring Independent
Sales Associates from all 50 states and four provinces in
Canada.
The company announced today that it is unveiling unprecedented
new premium features in its relaunched mobile app. The
app, available on iOS and Android, has had more than half a
million downloads since its original release and is available to
download for free.
The LegalShield app features will change the way that consumers
in North America gain access to legal assistance:
- Unlock premium features
immediately: As soon as they sign up, members can use the app’s
premium features for direct access to their dedicated provider law
firm.
- Snap a speeding ticket: In the
event of a speeding ticket, app users can snap a photo of the
ticket with their smartphone and send the image directly to their
provider law firm.
- Prepare legal documents: The
LegalShield app allows members to begin the process of drawing up
legal documents right from their smartphone. Updates will include
new and updated questionnaires and a new design, introducing the
ability to “save as you go.” With this new design feature,
questionnaires will be broken up into sections. There will also be
an updated questionnaire to begin the process to have a will
prepared and a new questionnaire to have a prenuptial agreement
prepared available later this month. Members can complete their
questionnaire and send it directly to their provider law firm via
the app to have the firm review and prepare the documents.
Additional questionnaires are coming to the app soon for
uncontested divorce and personal bankruptcy.
Consumers who are not currently signed up for a LegalShield plan
can access the app’s free features that include answers to commonly
asked legal questions and access to free legal forms. Consumers can
join the LegalShield community as members directly through the app
to immediately access the premium features.
LegalShield provides affordable access to justice that every
human deserves. Legal plans start at $24.95 per month, a fraction
of a lawyer’s usual hourly rates.
“LegalShield continues to disrupt the legal services industry by
developing innovative technologies that deliver easy and essential
access to legal services in all 50 states and four provinces in
Canada,” explained company CEO Jeff Bell. “Our new and improved
mobile app was designed to accommodate changing consumer
preferences and needs. We closely studied the information based on
the more than 1.6 million legal intakes recorded by our network of
provider law firms annually. When you’re in need of legal
assistance, waiting even 24 hours is often too long. Now, members
can sign up for a LegalShield membership and immediately have the
protection of a law firm in the palm of their hand.”
In addition to unveiling the new LegalShield app features, the
company also shared the latest insights from its LegalShield Law
Index. The LegalShield Law Index depicts the health of the U.S.
economy using LegalShield’s unique and proprietary database of
member demand for and usage of legal services. The five LegalShield
indices closely track a handful of key economic indicators, such as
the Consumer Confidence Index (developed by the Conference Board),
Housing Starts (reported by the U.S. Census Bureau), and
Foreclosure Starts (reported by the Mortgage Bankers Association).
Each LegalShield index has undergone a battery of statistical tests
to validate its relationship to an existing economic indicator that
sheds light on the health and direction of the U.S. economy.
LegalShield debuted the Law Index in May 2017 and publishes the Law
Index monthly, on the sixth business day of each month.
About LegalShield
A pioneer in the democratization of affordable access to legal
protection, LegalShield is one of North America’s leading providers
of legal safeguards and protection against identity theft for
individuals, families and small businesses. The 45-year-old company
has more than 1,751,000 members that are covered by its legal and
identity theft plans. IDShield provides identity theft protection
to one million individuals. LegalShield and IDShield serve more
than 141,000 businesses. Both legal and identity theft plans start
for less than $25 per month.
LegalShield’s legal plans provide access to attorneys with an
average of 22 years of experience in areas such as family matters,
estate planning, financial and business issues, consumer
protection, tax, real estate, benefits disputes and auto/driving
issues. Unlike other legal plans or do-it-yourself websites,
LegalShield has dedicated law firms in 50 states and four provinces
in Canada that members can call for help without having to worry
about high hourly rates.
IDShield provides identity monitoring and restoration services
and is the only identity theft protection company armed with a team
of licensed private investigators on call to restore a member’s
identity.
For more information, call press and corporate relations at
580-436-1234.
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