I offer legal primary care.
The idea of a personal attorney started in a courthouse. I was helping my wife do a legal name change, an important step in her transition. The form was confusing and I helped her sort out a few small questions. I was glad I was there but it made me wonder what happens to people who don't happen to have a lawyer in their life.
It became clear that as a profession, we did not have a good model anymore for delivering legal services to people unless they were in a special situation. The kind of general help I was offering was called "cocktail party law" and mostly featured in stories about the annoyances of being an attorney.
I had to look back in time to find a model for giving people general legal advice and still supporting yourself as an attoney.
I am inspired by the small town general practice attorney. The small town isn't for me, but what I really want is the commitment to a community of people and their understanding that I will be there for them when things are confusing or scary.
This is the heart of my practice and why I have chosen a community supported model. I want people to feel like they have back up in a world where lawyers are too often a tool used against them.
I offer legal primary care to the queer, trans, non-monogamous and kink communities in the state of Washington. I am mostly here to help diagnose legal problems and help with simple solutions, but occasionally someone really does need the services of an expert, when that happens I try to find the right help.
Being a generalist is my specialty.