Doityourselfclaims.com is owned and operated by fne lawyers as a means of bringing much needed practical legal information within the reach of many unrepresented citizens who by reason of various circumstances particular to them, must resort to legal self-help.
The fne name derives from the initials of Francis Nnamdi Elekwachi who founded the firm in 2004. Our firm grew its tap roots from the community legal services industry in Adelaide, South Australia in which our founder practiced for many years. Understandably our service philosophy and policies are driven by a mix of access-to-justice and sustainable profitability objectives. We believe that from service, comes success!
We are a general practice law firm offering legal services in all the general areas of Civil Law; Criminal Law; Family Law; Wills & Estate; General Law; Commercial & Business Law; Migration Law; Litigation and Legal Information Products.
Our specialty at fne lawyers is to provide legal services and representation to individuals and organisations , who on account of either low income or asset base, or by reason of public policy, are ineligible for legal aid or assistance by community legal centres, and who ordinarily, may be unable to afford, or otherwise would have considerable difficulty affording private legal representation on traditional terms and conditions. We also do legal aid work as well as provide legal services to the general public on traditional full fee paying terms and conditions.
Availability of legal aid to the unemployed and low income earners is limited by strict eligibility considerations of means test and public policy. The same is true of community legal help. For example, there are asset and income limits which must be met by applicants seeking legal aid or community legal assistance, and further, as a matter of public policy, hardly any public funding or assistance is available at all in such areas as traffic offences. As a result, a significant section of the population in the low-to-middle-income/asset-owning category, often find themselves without public funded legal representation.
Except in such areas as compensation law or similar areas where contingency fee arrangements are traditionally available, generally most private law firms provide services on the basis of traditional commercial terms and conditions which require upfront payment of substantial sums of money into solicitors’ trust accounts. Low-to-middle-income/asset-owning individuals and organisations often find themselves without legal representation as a result of their inability to afford substantial lump sum amounts for such upfront payment.
Fne lawyers targets its legal services at this segment of the population that would otherwise go without legal representation. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer quality flexible services to our clients on other than traditional terms and conditions which are flexible, convenient and sustainable for our clients and our firm.
We are continuing to investigate and implement new methods of delivering our services to as many citizens as possible who otherwise may not afford access to justice.
