Schedule a 20 Minute Call with an Attorney

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You have been invited to schedule a 20-minute call with one of the attorneys at Communities Rise. Please review the information on this form carefully as it explains important details about what you can expect from this brief call.

1. REQUEST FOR LEGAL HELP. An individual (the “Individual Applicant”) requests an appointment for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from a licensed attorney. The Individual Applicant affirms to Communities Rise (1) that the Individual Applicant is seeking legal advice for and on behalf of a small business, nonprofit organization, or community-based organization (the “Client Organization”) and (2) that the Individual Applicant is properly authorized to seek legal advice for and on behalf of the Client Organization. Communities Rise will only serve the legal needs of the Client Organization and not the personal legal needs of the Individual Applicant. If the Individual Applicant does not speak English, then this form has been adequately translated to a language understood by the Individual Applicant.
2. VERY LIMITED LEGAL SERVICES. During the 20-minute appointment, one or more attorneys (collectively, the “Attorney”) will advise the Client Organization. By attending the appointment, the Attorney and the Client Organization will form a very limited attorney-client relationship that starts at the beginning of the appointment and concludes at the end of the appointment. Due to the extremely limited nature of this attorney-client relationship, the Attorney will not be able to provide legal advice on every question or issue raised in the appointment. In such moments, the Attorney may instead provide general information intended for educational purposes, and such information is not intended to be relied upon as legal advice. This appointment is a one-time service, and the Attorney will not be available to advise the Client Organization after the call concludes, although the Attorney may send a follow-up email to share links to educational materials referenced during the call.
3. NO GUARANTEES. This request for an appointment does not create a contract or agreement requiring Communities Rise to provide legal services, and Communities Rise may reject this request for any reason. Because the outcome of any legal matter is subject to inherent risks and other factors beyond an attorney’s control, Communities Rise and the Attorney have not made, and cannot make, any guarantees or promises concerning the outcome of any matters. Due to the very limited scope of this service, the Attorney relies entirely on the accuracy and completeness of the information provided by the Individual Applicant and the Client Organization, and the Attorney cannot make any independent factual investigations. Therefore, the Client Organization understands its obligations to share all pertinent information with the Attorney in order to receive better legal advice.
4. OTHER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The titles and headings of these General Acknowledgements are not legally substantive language and should not be used to interpret or construe the legal meaning of these provisions.

When a small business, nonprofit organization, or community-based organization (the “Client Organization” or “you”) submits this form requesting legal services from Communities Rise (“CR”, “we” or “us”), we will treat any information relating to your request for legal services as private, confidential, and generally protected by attorney-client privilege. We may share your confidential information with others for the purposes listed below in the manner listed below:

1. TO PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES. To facilitate our ability to offer you our legal services, you authorize us to share, on your behalf, any information and documents relevant to this request for legal help with any volunteer attorneys who will provide legal services to you and with any volunteers assisting those attorneys. To facilitate our ability to identify and place you with an attorney who has the appropriate expertise, you authorize us to share, on your behalf, a limited, anonymized description of your legal matter with community legal partners of CR, including but not limited to pro bono transactional law firms, CR’s funders that CR partners with to provide transactional legal services, and any volunteer attorneys who may be interested in providing legal services to you.
2. TO PROMOTE OUR CHARITABLE LEGAL SERVICES. Unless you at any time inform us in writing otherwise, we may separately disclose the following information in our public materials: (1) the name of the Client Organization, and (2) an anonymized description of your legal matter. Our public materials include, but are not limited to, our annual reports, fundraising materials, outreach materials, any success stories or articles we may publish about Communities Rise, and any presentations about our work at Communities Rise.

By submitting this form, you authorize and consent to the above limited disclosures. At any time, you may withdraw or limit your consent by communicating with us in writing your intent to do so, but such withdrawals or limitations may make it impracticable to render legal services to the Client Organization. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Communities Rise reserves the right to disclose confidential client information as required or permitted by attorney ethics rules or law.

The next step is to schedule a time and date for your 20-minute appointment. Please use the button below to open our calendar scheduling page, which will allow you to view available appointment slots. If none of these options work for your schedule, please let us know and we can discuss arranging a call outside of normal business hours.