On October 23, 2014, Avvo Inc., the leading online legal marketplace, launched Avvo Advisor, a service that provides fast, on-demand legal advice by phone for a fixed rate of $39.00 for a 15-minute conversation with an attorney.
This service is available either online at avvo.com/advisor or through a free Avvo Advisor iOS app and covers nine areas of law (and counting), including bankruptcy, criminal, divorce, employment, family, immigration, landlord-tenant, real estate and small business. Avvo Advisor is pushing the envelope by making professional legal assistance more accessible, affordable, and less time-consuming and hassle-ridden. The legal ethical implications of this limited scope service have yet to be fully explored, but it raises issues as to how to implement a viable conflicts check and whether legal services on demand will alter the traditional view of the attorney-client relationship.
As Mark Britton, Avvo’s founder and CEO, remarked, “we want to make access to legal help as routine as getting a medical checkup, and Avvo Advisor is a game-changing step towards that goal.”
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