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Legal Coaching - A Different Way

Legal coaching is a cost-effective alternative to traditional full-representation legal assistance. Instead of taking full control of a case and charging for every minute of the significant time it takes to bring most legal matters to trial, we help our clients represent themselves, so they can focus their spending where they really need it and do the rest themselves for free.

Our clients retain ultimate control over their case, while we help from the sidelines; providing guidance, support and accountability. We teach skills, provide advice, develop strategy and answer questions. Through regularly scheduled sessions, we collaborate with self-represented clients to establish goals, identify steps, develop a plan and help our clients execute it. 

Our clients pay for as many or as few coaching sessions as they require, with no long-term commitment or retainer to be paid upfront, making it easier for them to plan and budget in bringing their legal matter to a resolution. Legal coaching encompasses a wide variety of behind-the-scenes help so clients can customize their sessions based on their unique legal and budgetary needs.

To serve our clients better, we also offer a selection of flat-fee legal services ("unbundled" or distinct legal tasks), such as drafting a contract or settlement that has already been negotiated or obtaining an uncontested divorce. Rather than hourly, we charge a flat-fee for these distinct tasks of short duration.

We meet clients where they are: their skills, their resources, their capacity, their budget, as well as physically (we use video-conferencing to connect with clients wherever they are). We believe with the right support, effective self-advocacy is within reach of most people.

For more information on what legal coaching and unbundled legal services are, watch this video.
What We do

Distinct Legal Tasks

  • Assistance with the completion of court forms and documents
  • Assistance with the preparation of affidavits
  • Obtaining general legal advice and information on relevant case law or legislation
  • Assistance responding to letters from a lawyer or another person
  • Accessing self-help tools, legal information, websites and other resources
  • Assistance preparing for mediation, hearing, or trial, including how to address people, what to wear, what to expect and how to organize written or verbal presentations, including chances to practice and get feedback
  • Strategic guidance in dealing with the strengths and weaknesses of a case and any burden of proof that must be met
  • Legal research

Is Legal Coaching Right for You?

If you are considering legal coaching, but are not certain if it is a good fit for you, take the People’s Law School quiz.
what we offer

We strive to empower our clients to be their own best advocate


Legal Coaching

Legal coaching helps people who are representing themselves in a legal matter with advice, information, guidance, support, skills-building, strategic planning and other legal assistance. The self-represented client retains ultimate control and responsibility of their case and the lawyer helps from the background.

Unbundled Legal Services

If full representation is a “complete bundle” or package of legal services, then “unbundling” extracts one of more of those services and offers them separately. We offer a limited selection of these for a flat-rate fee.

Free Consultation

In this 20 minute session, we will tell you more about legal coaching, what to expect and assess whether it is right for you and your case.
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We are so pleased to be starting this legal practice dedicated to the needs of self-represented litigants: people who are representing themselves in a legal matter, whether in part or in full. In other words, people who are not lawyers (mostly), but doing the work of one.

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