ADA, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LegalShield, North America’s leading provider of affordable legal plans and identity theft protection for individuals, families and small businesses, announced the new LegalShield and IDShield plans with expanded benefits for new members. The LegalShield mobile app provides high value free services like free legal forms and answers to common legal questions. Starting January 2, users of the free version of the mobile app can join the same day they receive a speeding ticket and have it processed by their LegalShield law firm. In addition, the new IDShield membership begins monitoring the member's identity in the dark web immediately upon enrollment, including alerts for issues through the IDShield mobile app.
LegalShield empowers and protects individuals, families and small businesses by offering affordable access to legal services through a mobile app that everyone in North America should download – members and non-members. In addition to great free features, the new and enhanced legal plans give members access to their law firm at a fraction of the cost of what most lawyers charge per hour. New-for-2018, recently added additional benefits include:
- Snap a speeding ticket: In the event a non-member receives a speeding ticket, they can snap a photo of the ticket from their smartphone, become a member, and send the image directly to their law firm for handling.
- Durable Power of Attorney (POA) as part of Estate Planning: In addition to a Last Will & Testament and Living Will, new members can now appoint an agent to oversee legal and financial matters on their behalf and extend the duration of the POA in the event the member is mentally incompetent at the time it is set to expire.
IDShield is adding the additional member benefit of automatic monitoring so that members will begin to receive credit monitoring and internet monitoring as soon as they sign up, without any further action. Members will be encouraged and reminded to sign into their account and securely add additional personal identity and financial information for monitoring, but have the peace of mind knowing that at enrollment, basic monitoring has begun. With every IDShield membership, the IDShield Vault mobile application is also included. This powerful app securely manages a member’s username and password on PCs, tablets and mobile phones.
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 solutions for individuals, families and small businesses. The 45-year-old company has more than 1,700,000 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.
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