In-House Counsel

WhoCanISue.com (?!?)

By Geoff Gussis

Will a new online service unleash new hordes of potential claimants? We’ll see, as WhoCanISue.com is launching soon….

“We allow our users to find information about their potential legal claims and determine whether they are qualified for a particular claim without disclosing confidential information. Then our patent pending model pairs them with attorneys from their area who handle similar claims.

“We built our service around what people find everywhere else on the Web today: The ability to get an immediate answer without revealing confidential details or giving out their name and phone number. This will make WhoCanISue.com the go to choice when people feel they’ve been wronged and are looking for answers.”

The unique process used by WhoCanISue.com also ensures that cases are not jeopardized inadvertently, a common pitfall of some other approaches to online matchmaking. Because WhoCanISue.com does not require submission of open-ended descriptions of the facts of the user’s claim, users are not forced to divulge information that could be deemed a waiver of the attorney-client priviledge resulting in the information being introduced in court and used against them.

WhoCanISue.com does not generate “leads” to potential clients, a method commonly used in online legal marketing that violates ethical rules governing most attorneys’ advertising. Instead, WhoCanISue.com’s patent pending model allows attorneys to bid on real-time ad placements — usually limited to five attorneys — delivered to users who have completed question paths to determine their qualification for a particular claim. The user then reviews the profiles of the attorneys and can initiate an instant message or telephone call with the attorney, or can request that the firm contact the user about his or her claim.

Read the press release at TechWeb: The Business Technology Network.

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Full post as published by InhouseBlog - News and Jobs for Inhouse Counsel on August 08, 2008 (boomark / email).