Legal Aid Services
The Union Plus Legal Service Difference:
- Substantial savings with no annual fee. The Union Plus Legal Service has the best fee-discount percentage of all free group legal services plans in the United States.
- Free initial consultation -up to 30 minutes with a lawyer. Most additional services - 30% discount.
- Largest attorney panel - including lawyers from over 2,000 law office locations nationwide.
- Over 20 years serving union members.
- Labor union-friendly. Lawyers are screened for being labor union-friendly and union-approved.
- Notification of referrals, improves customer experience. For both online and phone referrals, panel attorneys can be notified in advance of a union member's call.
- Call 1-888-993-8886 or find a lawyer online.
Find a lawyer in your area using the Union Plus Legal Service
In legal matters, union members rely on expert advice. And to help find lawyers who can answer their personal legal questions, members can consult the Union Plus Legal Service.
Need a lawyer? Lawyers in the legal panel have expertise in:
- Family law
- Traffic matters
- Wills and estate-planning
- Real estate
- Immigration law and more.
The Union Plus Legal Service helps:
- Make legal services more accessible and affordable to union members and their families.
- Simplify the search for legal advice for working families.
- Encourage the use of preventive law-get advice before a legal question becomes a legal problem.
Legal aid services you can trust
- Selective. Union Plus Legal Service lawyers are carefully selected to make sure members receive the best services available.
- Labor-friendly. Many of the panel of attorneys serving the program have been selected from lists of lawyers involved in the union movement and those involved with similar group legal services programs. All are screened for being labor friendly.
- Experienced. The attorneys on the panel are carefully screened and have an average of 14 years of experience in active private practice.
Your input
Union members who use the service are asked to evaluate the lawyer and the service provided, then Union Privilege follows up on any complaints.
Union members should comment on their experience with the legal service by clicking one of the thumbs up/thumbs down.
It's confidential.
All matters are handled between you and your lawyer on a strictly confidential basis. Only your lawyer will know you are using the service.
The program is provided by Union Privilege and Custom Legal Plans, LLC.
Legal service features
Free lawyer consultation and review
No enrollment forms or fees are required. Union members are automatically enrolled and receive the following benefits for each separate legal matter:
- Free initial consultation - up to 30 minutes with a lawyer (in person or over the phone).
- Free simple document review and explanation. Members can avoid mistakes by understanding what they sign. Members are provided with an oral interpretation of such personal documents as leases, insurance policies and installment sales contracts. (NOTE: This benefit does not include real estate matters.)
- Free follow-up services, including a simple letter or phone call, if likely to resolve a legal matter.
- Most additional services are discounted by 30% - including attorney's hourly rates and flat fees for most common legal cases. The discount does not apply to matters involving a member's ownership or operation of a business and does not cover matters involving union-related organizations or officials.
- Written fee agreement-The participating lawyer will provide an agreement on fees, protecting the member and preventing any surprises.
Legal aid services you can trust
- Selected. Union Plus Legal Service lawyers are carefully selected to make sure members receive the best services available.
- Labor-friendly. Many of the panel of attorneys serving the program have been selected from lists of lawyers involved in the union movement and those involved with similar group legal services programs.
- Experienced. The attorneys on the panel are carefully screened and have an average of 14 years of experience in active private practice.
Each participating lawyer in the Union Plus Legal Service must:
- Be interested in serving union members,
- Agree to provide all program benefits (both free and discounted),
- Agree to provide written fee agreements to all program participants,
- Keep each union member fully informed about the status of his or her case and
- Abide by the administrative responsibilities of participation.
Join the legal panel
Are you a lawyer or representative from a law firm? Interested lawyers may complete ask to participate in the Union Plus Legal Service panel.
Union members may also recommend a lawyer for the Union Plus legal panel.
Legal tips
Have you done a legal check-up lately? It typically involves 4 steps:
- Gather important documents and organize relevant information into a coherent picture of your legal situation.
- Analyze the picture in light of your goals.
- Recommend specific changes and note areas that bear watching.
- Do whatever is required to help assure legal health.
Eligibility
The Union Plus Legal Service is available in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Who is eligible?
- All dues-paying labor union members
- Union member retirees
- Union member spouses and dependent children (as defined by IRS regulations)
No participating lawyers in your area?
- Let us know where the program needs participating lawyers by emailing legal@unionprivilege.org.
- Or recommend a lawyer in your area by completing this form.
Customer Service
- Union Plus Legal Service customer service is available at 1-888-993-8886 (9-7 ET, M-F). All calls are answered in the U.S.
- Find a lawyer online and after selecting a lawyer, use the online tool to notify that lawyer by email of your intent to contact their office; you can even briefly describe your legal issue.
No participating lawyers in your area?
- Let us know where the program needs participating lawyers by emailing legal@unionprivilege.org.
- Or recommend a lawyer in your area by completing this form.
We realize that sometimes you may need help with a concern about using a Union Plus program. The Union Plus Member Advocacy Program, staffed by OPEIU Local 2 members, is here to help you resolve any problems. Contact us at 1-800-472-2005 (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET, weekdays) or online at UnionPlus.org/Customer.
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Union Leader Materials
- Order free Union Plus Legal Service brochures online or by calling the Union Plus Leader Line at 1-800-472-2005 or 202-293-5330 (M-F, 8:30 – 4:30 pm ET) in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
- Place an ad or article about Legal Service in your union publication(s).
- Create a link to all your union’s Union Plus benefits on your union’s Web site.
- Print a handy benefits guide and customize it with your local union’s name.
- Union membership doesn't cost - it pays! Do you and your members know how much (on average) they could save annually if they used the Union Plus discounts? Calculate your savings now.
