WHAT TO SUBMIT FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT
Be sure to submit to Student Legal Services, via email at: info@studentlegalservices.com, the following for your appointment with Student Legal Services:
- Student ID card and verification of current class schedule.
- Any and all documents related to your legal situation, such as your ticket, bond paperwork, Secretary of State paperwork, contract, court date notice, lease, photos, videos, letters, emails, and/or text messages. If you have a criminal case, you will generally need to submit your police report as well as any body and dash cam video that may be available by a Freedom of Information Request to the police department. Please submit clear copies of all documents to be reviewed by your attorney.
- Honesty. Sometimes students think it is better not to share if we do not know certain things about them or their legal situations. In fact, the opposite is true. Your attorney needs all relevant information – the good and the bad – to properly advise you. Remember that communications with Student Legal Services are confidential as required by the attorney-client privilege.
APPOINTMENT OBLIGATION POLICY
Student Legal Services is committed to providing high quality legal services to students. To accomplish that goal, Student Legal Services must have access to all relevant information concerning a client’s case. This requires our clients to collect as much information available to them about their case and submit it to Student Legal Services. Failure to timely provide this information impedes our attorneys’ ability to adequately prepare for appointments, causes delays in verifying a client’s eligibility, and critically impedes Student Legal Services from providing services to other students.
To that end, Student Legal Services has adopted an Appointment Obligation Policy which provides for an automatic cancellation of a client’s appointment if the requested information is not provided to Student Legal Services in a timely manner. The time required to submit the information is as follows:
To that end, Student Legal Services has adopted an Appointment Obligation Policy which provides for an automatic cancellation of a client’s appointment if the requested information is not provided to Student Legal Services in a timely manner. The time required to submit the information is as follows:
- In criminal matters, the client must provide Student Legal Services with the requested information by no later than 48 hours prior to the scheduled appointment.
- In all other matters, the client must provide Student Legal Services with the requested information by no later than 24 hours prior to the scheduled appointment.
NO-SHOW POLICY
Student Legal Services is concerned about ensuring access to attorneys for all eligible students. Once an appointment is confirmed, a Student Legal Services attorney will block out that time and prohibit other matters from being scheduled. A failure to cancel an appointment in advance or a failure to keep the appointment will negatively impact the effectiveness of the service for other students and the attorney.
Student Legal Services has a No-Show policy to discourage these missed opportunities. A student will be considered No-Show for an appointment if the student:
Student Legal Services has a No-Show policy to discourage these missed opportunities. A student will be considered No-Show for an appointment if the student:
- Fails to cancel a scheduled appointment by providing advance notice of at least 24 hours; or
- Arrives or joins a scheduled appointment more than 10 minutes late; or
- Fails to keep a scheduled appointment altogether including having an appointment automatically cancelled pursuant to Student Legal Services’ Appointment Obligation Policy.