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Member Profile: trackitt (143 posts)

Hello, I'm trackitt

I am from Mars

I last logged in 3 hours 24 minutes ago

I have been a member since 25 Nov 2005

I have added 143 posts in trackitt forums

I added my last post on 01 Jul 2008

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Posted in I-485 Forum on 01 Jul 2008

Topic: Trackitt plz start Astrology prediction site..

How about this?

- Users opt in to a prediction game, which means they are willing to pay $50 to the person who predicts the closest date to when a user will get his GC.
- On the website, users predict when others will get their GC.
- When any user gets his GC, the best guesser will get the $50 from the user who got his GC.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 01 Jul 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $5!!

Oh man! That was disappointing. After reading the heading, I was hoping that you would be providing contct details of a lawyer who would give me $5 if I asked them for it ...

You're right, that's how it sounded :)

Posted in I-485 Forum on 01 Jul 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $5!!

You can ask your questions to immigration lawyers for $10.

First 50 or so questions are $5 only, that's 50% off!

Refer to this earlier thread:
http://www.trackitt.com/discussion-forums/i485-1/141189291/

For details on how the system works, please refer to:
http://www.lawbench.com/HowItWorks.html

Regards,
-trackitt

Posted in I-485 Forum on 27 Jun 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $10!

Thanks for your inputs. At this point, the site is well tested and ready to launch. So we're not making changes now. We'll include these new features as soon as we can after the launch.

Changes such as the feedback URL and ratings will need to be run by the lawyers as well, and they may suggest some modifications.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 27 Jun 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $10!

>> I believe asking 1 lawyer a question really does not give you the peace of mind (especially when one actually wants to engage the law firm further). I am sure you will see more traffic and interest if [1] gets implemented from the get go.

You could still ask 3 lawyers, but you will have to ask them separately, and will cost you $30 total. We will look into the bundled service once the site starts to get some traction.

>> This is true. What I can think up is, once the e-transaction is completed, a ConsultationID (random#) could be emailed to the client. The client presents this to the lawyer at the time of follow-up - once the call is completed, the law firm would enter this # back in the system, thereby 'enabling' the 'Rate Me' feature.

Right. It could be as simple as having the lawyer email the user a 'Rate Me' URL after the phone consultation is over. This will also verify that the user providing the feedback actually used the service. The drawback with this feature is that if the phone consultation doesn't go well, the lawyer will not send the 'Rate Me' URL to the user.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 27 Jun 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $10!

I see no harm if the legal issues are covered as far as you are concerned and everyone remembers that not everything can be resolved by asking in a ten dollar consult. I have used a legal website when I was unsure of what to do for a work related problem and it did help me, sure my issue was complicated and it went beyond just the answer I received from the website but it did help me define a 'course of action'.

You said it well. People cannot base decisions in their careers on a $10 online consult. The site will only help the user in getting a second opinion and get a general understanding of what course of action the user might have to take.

Plus, remember that the site is not just about asking questions online. It's also about knowing which lawyer to go to when you want a detailed phone consultation, and the same time, getting discounted rates for phone consultations with the lawyer. Many of my friends, and I myself, have paid $200 per hour to lawyers. Usually, the phone meeting lasts only about 20 minutes, and you cannot rollover the remaining 40 minutes.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 27 Jun 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $10!

[1] instead it could be modified to 'asklawyers' meaning that one could get a 2nd opinion / multiple opinions on the same question from different law firms. The pricing could be adjusted as $10/initial + $5/additional lawyer, with a free follow-up each. So $20 could get you answers from 3 firms with 1 follow-up each. Since 6 lawyers could have 3 different answers (possibly 7 :-)) to the same question, this might be a useful & cost-effective feature.

Yes we have thought of bundling the services into something like Ask 3 Lawyer for $25! or something like that. But that's phase 2.

[2] customer satisfaction after the follow-up question needs to be measured and rolled-up for that law firm for others to see.

Rating lawyers online is a tricky business. We could base the rating on a user's follow-up phone consultation with a lawyer, not just on the reply he received to his question. However, since the phone consultation transaction doesn't happen on our site (unlike ebay where the trade happens on the site itself), it will be difficult to verify whether the user actually did a phone consultation with the lawyer in question. We need to think about this a little more.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 27 Jun 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $10!

with very frequently changing rules, random way of working and very poor customer service - i doubt that any lawyer on the earth can tell me the fair time range when my case would be adjudicated. my case is very simple and straightforward - still i am saying this.

Lawyers will not be answering questions like "When will my application be approved?" Nobody knows the answer to that. Lawyers on the site will not contact USCIS for you.

The type of questions you can expect to be answered on the site are related to employment, switching jobs, AC21, travel, EAD, Advance Parole, re-entry permits, green cards, temporary visas, family-based immigration, visa lotteries, naturalization, etc -- the whole immigration deal. We expect to raise the bar on what type of information people can expect to get online. Information coming from a lawyer carries more weight than information coming from a random user.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 27 Jun 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $10!

trackitt,

Have you considered the legal aspect of it?

If a lawyer gives his/her opinion, the lawyer is expected to be responsible for his/her words, especially that we are going to pay for it. Now what if the lawyer gives a wrong advice to a question. Who do we sue? Trackitt or the attorney?

Not giving you a hard time, but you will see this happening one of these days when the new feature comes online.

Thanks for pointing that out. We have engaged a lawyer to review the site and create the terms of use and disclaimers.

Still, nobody can prevent a user from suing us or the lawyers. However, the chances of that person winning the case are almost zero, because the user would have used the "Ask a Lawyer" site with the full knowledge that he/she is using the site to obtain legal information, not legal advice. There are standard terms of use that every user will have to accept, and the acceptance will be a pre-condition to asking a question. When a user explicitly accepts the terms of use on a site, he is legally bound by it. So suing us or the lawyer will just waste everybody's time.

"Ask a Lawyer" is not a new concept. There are many such sites already existing, and they all have the same terms of use and disclaimers on the site.

Posted in I-485 Forum on 27 Jun 2008

Topic: Ask a Lawyer for $10!

As long as everyone here continues to post and share experiences the legal advise section can only help.

A QA section with a lawyer can however take away from 'experience sharing'...where traditionally everyone would have replied back with their personal experiences and in that way the poster gets a whole wide range of answers/ possible scenarios etc. But having said that maybe absolute expert advise is what so many need for their problems.

"Ask a Lawyer" feature will be hosted on a separate website so that all immigrants can use it, not just those coming here to track their cases. So people should still continue to share their experiences and knowledge on trackitt.

The "Ask a Lawyer" site is already publicly viewable, we just haven't announced it yet. It's a very simple, clean, user-friendly website. Later we will introduce new features like online chat sessions with lawyers. Currently it's only in the form of an online Q&A forum.

The URL is going to be law......com, fill in the dots.