You can be reviewed by any user on The Lawyer Guide, using the Review section on your profile. Here, the reviewer can fill how you have performed on different criteria, write a description about this review and give a score from 1 to 5.

You can send an invitation to someone to let him/her review you. The invitation is sent by email to this person and link directly to your profile, starting the review process.

After a review has been submitted, you will receive a notification by email and we will display on your dashboard that a review is pending, waiting approval. You can then either accept or reject the client's relationship. The name of the person who reviewed you won't be displayed after you have accepted his review.

You can't delete a review on The Lawyer Guide, however if you believe it's a bug or a mistake, you can contact our support and we will check your review.

We try to keep as much control as possible on reviews possible, and we go through it daily to see if there is no wrong reviews posted on The Lawyer Guide.

You can claim your profile by looking for it on The Lawyer Guide. When you found it, you can click on the button "Claim my profile" under your profile picture, fill your professional email address and we will send you a link to set up your profile. If the email address isn't matching the one we have saved on our side, we will manually review your claiming request.

Claiming a profile is free and doesn't require to give any billing information. You can claim and use your profile for Free, as long as you want.

Claiming your profile gives you more control about it and let you enjoy the basic features of The Lawyer Guide. Also, claimed profile have better ranking on search results than non claimed profiles. Claiming your profile doesn't bide you to upgrade to Premium later.

No, claiming your account is free and doesn't require to upgrade to Premium to be made.

After you have requested to claim your profile, we will send a link to your email to finish the claim. You will be able to choose a password and update basic information about your profile. Then, you can log in through the platform normally, using the password you have defined.

The Lawyer Guide Premium is a service we offer to lawyers who have claimed their profile and want to benefits of more features. It includes more profile customisations, a better position on search results, and the possibility to be featured on the homepage of the website, alongside other exclusive features.

The Lawyer Guide can be used for Free by any lawyer. Features like getting reviewed, basic customisation of the profile after claiming are included in the Free plan.

The Lawyer Guide Premium costs 14$ per month for now instead of 49$, as a special offer for our launch in California, excluding taxes.

Once you have claimed your profile, you can upgrade yourself to Premium through your dashboard, on the section "Upgrade to Premium".

No, you pay per month and can cancel anytime.

You can cancel your subscription at any time with a 1 month notice period. You do this easily on the dashboard, under "Subscription".You will receive a confirmation email immediately after cancelling your renewal.

You can use your Premium subscription until the end of its period. After that, your profile will be reverted to a Free plan.

Leads are direct demands submitted by users on The Lawyer Guide, after filling the following form. Leads are manually checked by our team before being forwarded to you. These leads includes client's name, contact informations, location, legal expertise required and a message to describe the need.

On your dashboard, under Lead section, you can activate the feature and choose what expertise you would like to receive leads on. Then, leads are sent to your email, and also displayed on your Lead section on your dashboard. You can have a complete follow up on them and sort your demands.

Yes, leads are a Premium feature and require to have a Premium subscription to be activated. Special deals can be done with law firms and lawyers, you can contact sales to get more information.

Yes, you can choose what legal category you want to receive leads on, alongside the desired location, either city or counties.

Yes, leads are an extra to the Premium subscription and are billed 300NOK per lead received.

We send the lead to your email and also display them under the "Lead" section on your dashboard. You have a complete historical of your leads here.

Yes, you can set a limit on how many leads you want to receive per month.

You can turn on turn off leads anytime on your settings. However you'll still have to pay for the lead you have received before your turned it off.

Payments on The Lawyer Guide are made with invoicing or with Stripe directly where you can use your payment card. In the case you choose the invoicing option, we require a binding period of 12 months so you'll pay for the 12 months ahead.

If you believe that there is a mistake in the invoicing, you can contest your invoice by contacting our support and the contact email in the invoice.

Invoices aren't stored on The Lawyer Guide directly but we can provide you a historical of it if you want it.

Invoices have to be paid within the month you have received it, to ensure the maintaining of your Premium account.

We send our invoices by email, to the address you have provided us in your billing information.

The Lawyer Guide is owned and operated by Advokatguiden AS. Advokatguiden was created by IT founder and lawyer Erling Løken Andersen with François Savard. The company is based in Oslo, Norway, and operates in Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Netherlands and USA.

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The Lawyer Guide aims to contribute to an increase transparency in the law industry while maintaining the highest degree of transparency in this social mission.
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The Lawyer Guide will promote skilled lawyers and function as a unifying national legal arena. The Lawyer Guide will be responsive to the legal professional community and invite it to contribute to the development of the platform.

The information on The Lawyer Guide comes from the Supervisory Council for Legal Practice. We regularly make updates to include new lawyers and law firms. The goal is for The Lawyer Guide to always be up to date with Norwegian lawyers, associates, and legal assistants with a license from the Supervisory Council.

The target audience for The Lawyer Guide is threefold: First, we address former legal clients. We offer former clients a platform to express serious feedback, so that they may give an honest assessment of the work their lawyer has done. Secondly, we cater to future clients, whether they are individuals or companies. We offer free and reliable information about potential lawyers for their next assignment. Thirdly, we turn to the legal profession itself. We want to be an accountable partner to the industry, which helps to promote the most skilled lawyers.

The Lawyer Guide sets strict requirements for all reviews. In cases where we suspect that a review is incorrect, false, or otherwise does not comply to our standards of quality, we reserve the right not to publish the review. If you have submitted a review that you believe is in line with our guidelines, and it is not published within 2-3 weeks, please contact us at support@thelawyerguide.com

The Lawyer Guide aims to increase the degree of transparency in the legal profession. Lawyers serve an important social responsibility in California and it is in the interest of the community that there is good, up-to-date and neutral information about the work of the various lawyers currently practicing. All basic information on The Lawyer Guide is provided by the Supervisory Council for Legal Practice, in accordance with the Public Access to Information Act and the EU Open Data Directive. Normally, The Lawyer Guide does not unpublish any information, including, but not limited to, individual lawyer profiles and reviews, unless there are compelling reasons for us to do so. If you believe that you can prove compelling reasons, we ask that you send us an e-mail to support@thelawyerguide.com. In the letter, you must explain why you believe there are compelling reasons for unpublication. Feel free to add any attachments in support of your claim. The secretariat of The Lawyer Guide will assess your inquiry within 10 working days. The secretariat's decisions are public and will be published on The Lawyer Guide in line with the platform's transparency principle. Refusals can not appealed, but can potentially be brought before Norwegian courts. The first venue for this is Oslo District Court.

There are many ways for you to achieve greater visibility on The Lawyer Guide. Our algorithm automatically highlights lawyers who have claimed their profile, updated it with additional information, uploaded a photo of themselves and collected their first reviews. We recommend all lawyers to invite previous clients to leave a review on The Lawyer Guide of the work done by the lawyer. The more reviews, the more confidence potential new clients will have in you and your profile,and the higher up in the search results your profile will appear. You can also link to your profile on The Lawyer Guide from your regular website - or from your company's Facebook Pages.