"Our office has three full-time attorneys, a full-time legal assistant and a couple of part-timers occasionally. Our areas of practice are kind of a general practice with litigation and also wills, probate - that sort of thing.

One of the attorneys in our office had been working with the ARAG Group and talked to me about and said it was the best legal plan that he had worked for. That's how I got interested in joining.

By participating in the network, we have been able to build a client base without having to do any sort of print or radio-type advertising. I think the clients that you get that are members of the ARAG Group are a better quality type of client.

We've been able to be introduced to members and gotten referrals from members to their relatives and friends and build a client base because of that.

Working with the ARAG team has been a positive experience for both me and my legal assistant. We do not seem to get bogged down in administrative details with them.

I think one of the most rewarding parts of working with the ARAG group for me has been providing wills to people. A lot of the people that are new plan members join because they could get a will and they were fifty-five or sixty years old and had never had a will. This was a big relief to them.

My advice to an attorney trying to build a practice would be to consider joining a legal plan. Marketing is one of the hardest parts of providing legal services and I think a lot of people that are attorneys that are pretty good at providing legal services are not very good at marketing. My experience with ARAG is that they do a good job with marketing."

John McNamara
ARAG Network Attorney
Omaha, Nebraska