ProPera Legal ®
First Legal Platform For The People
ADVOCATE SUPPORT

Someone in your corner, working at your direction.

ProPera Legal® advocates organize your paperwork, run the software, and stand beside you, but only when you ask. Affordable, practical support for anyone navigating the legal system, with or without an attorney. Advocates are not attorneys and do not give legal advice.
WHAT AN ADVOCATE IS
A trained advocate, working only at your direction.
A ProPera Legal® advocate is not an attorney and not a paralegal. We are trained, experienced people who stand beside you as you navigate the legal system, and we act only when you specifically ask us to.
That one rule matters more than it might seem. An attorney can make judgment calls and act on your behalf without checking in, but an advocate never does, because acting on our own judgment would be the unlicensed practice of law. Instead, you tell us what you need and we carry it out, so you remain in command of your case at every step.
Why we do this work
Courts, filings, dockets, and records increasingly live behind screens and portals, and plenty of capable people are shut out of their own case by a login page or a PDF form. Your advocate operates that technology at your instruction so that stops being the obstacle. If a disability makes the platform hard to use, tell us and we will help you use it at no charge. That accommodation is free and always will be. It is separate from the paid help described on this page, and we make no claim that any law entitles you to bring an advocate into a proceeding. Whether a court allows that is the court’s decision alone.
A legal advocate and a client sitting side by side at a kitchen table, reviewing printed court papers together with a case dashboard open on a laptop
THE ONE RULE
Nothing happens in your case unless you ask for it. That is the promise every advocate here works under.
HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT
Not an attorney or a paralegal, but something new.
Attorneys
Licensed to give legal advice, represent you in court, and act on your behalf without asking first. Their help is powerful, but it is often priced far beyond what ordinary people can afford.
Paralegals
Trained legal professionals who work under an attorney’s supervision. Their work runs through a law firm, not through you.
ProPera Legal® Advocates
Experienced navigators who act only on your specific instructions, so nothing ever happens without your say-so. It is help that answers to you alone, at a price built for ordinary people.
Advocates do not give legal advice, do not represent you in court, and never act without your direction.
WHAT WE COVER
The practical work, taken off your plate.
Every engagement begins with your instructions, and these are the things people ask us for most. What is not on this list is legal work: we cannot tell you what to file, what the law means for your facts, or whether your evidence is any good. Those are questions for a licensed attorney.
Technology, handled for you
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Get you set up on ProPera Legal® and the online systems your case runs through
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Organize your case files and evidence in one place, labeled the way you want them
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Enter the information you give us, so you are not fighting the keyboard
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Format and assemble the documents you have written, without changing your words
Organization and preparation
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Keep a shared record of the dates and commitments you identify
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Gather and label the material your attorney or the court has asked you for
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Build a clean exhibit set from the evidence you select
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Sit with you while you work through the software, at your pace
A record of what happened
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Court-watching: an observer in the public gallery or on the public line
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Plain notes of what was said and done, written as it happens
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Help assembling a complaint you have decided to make, in your words
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Keep your own records and correspondence in order over the life of a case
By your side
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Attend calls and meetings with your attorney, virtually, if your attorney agrees
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Someone steady beside you when it counts
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Help preparing the questions you want to ask your own attorney
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A second set of hands on the practical work, so you can think about your case
WITH OR WITHOUT AN ATTORNEY
We augment your attorney, or act as an extension of you.
If you have an attorney
We keep your file organized, track what your attorney has asked you for, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. Attorneys do their best work for clients who show up prepared, and our job is to make sure you are that client. Check with your attorney before we join a call with them, since bringing a third party into a privileged conversation can cost you that protection.
If you are on your own
We handle the technology and the organizing, so your energy goes into your case instead of paperwork. You still represent yourself, you still make every decision, and you are still the one responsible for your deadlines and filings. You just do not have to do the busywork alone.
Over the shoulder view of a client on a laptop video call with their attorney and their advocate, taking notes at a warmly lit home desk
Sessions happen over Google Meet. Recording is off unless you ask for it. If you do want your session recorded, we transcribe it with Google Gemini and store both in our Google Workspace at no added charge, so you can go back over anything you covered. The recording is for you. We do not sell recordings or transcripts, do not share them outside ProPera, and do not use them to train any AI model. We keep them for twelve months and then delete them, and you can ask us to delete one sooner at any time. Several states require everyone on a call to agree before it can be recorded, so if you bring another person in, tell them first. You can change your mind at any point, including partway through, and you can ask us to delete a recording and its transcript at any time.
HOW IT WORKS
Getting started is simple, and you set the direction the whole way.
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Pick your advocate
We send you the full list of advocates. Read their backgrounds, meet whoever you like, and pick the one you want.
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Tell us what you need
Describe your situation and the specific tasks you want handled.
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We act on your instructions
Your advocate carries out the tasks you asked for, and nothing more.
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You stay in command
Nothing moves forward without your go-ahead, and you can change direction whenever you need to.
You pick your own advocate. We send you the full list when you sign up, you can meet one before deciding, and you can switch at any time. Each advocate sets their own hourly rate and discloses it to you well before you ever meet.
A FIRST OF ITS KIND
The first legal platform for the people.
ProPera Legal® is building a network of paid advocates: real people, paid fairly, doing the practical work beside litigants who are representing themselves.
We put technology at the disposal of people the legal industry prices out, because we believe access to the courts should never depend on what someone can afford. We are not a substitute for a lawyer, and when you need one we will say so.
Map of the United States drawn as a network of glowing gold dots connected by fine gold lines, representing the nationwide ProPera Legal advocate network
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
Frequently asked questions

Is a ProPera Legal advocate a lawyer?

No. Advocates are not attorneys and not paralegals, and no attorney supervises their work. They do not give legal advice and do not represent you in court. They are experienced people who handle practical tasks you specifically direct: organizing your case, operating the software, keeping your paperwork in order, and being there while you do the work.

How is an advocate different from hiring an attorney?

An attorney can advise you, decide strategy, and act for you. An advocate does none of those things. An advocate helps with the practical work around a case: paperwork, organization, software, and preparation. If what you need is someone to tell you what to do, you need an attorney, and an advocate is not a cheaper substitute for one.

What are the limits on what an advocate can do?

Advocates handle clerical, organizational, and technical work. They do not choose what to file, do not tell you what the law means for your facts, do not decide what your evidence proves, do not write legal arguments, and do not speak for you to a court, a clerk, or the other side. Every state decides for itself what counts as practicing law, and those rules differ. If something you ask for crosses that line, your advocate will decline and point you toward a licensed attorney. That is not us being unhelpful; it is the boundary the work operates inside. Advocates also do not assist with bankruptcy, immigration, tax, or patent and trademark matters at all, because those proceedings have their own federal rules about who may prepare documents and be paid for it.

What can I ask an advocate to do?

Set you up on ProPera Legal, organize and label your case documents, enter information you give them, format and assemble what you have written, keep a shared record of dates and commitments you identify, sit with you while you work through the software, observe a public hearing and take notes, and help you gather the material an attorney has asked you for. If you want an opinion about your case, what to file, or whether an argument is any good, that is a question for a licensed attorney rather than an advocate.

Who will my advocate be? Can I switch?

You choose. When you sign up we send you the full list of advocates with their backgrounds and their rates, and you can meet one before you decide anything. If the fit is not right after you have started, you can switch to a different advocate at any time, no questions asked.

Can an advocate help if I already have an attorney?

Yes, and it is often the best use of one. An advocate keeps your file organized, tracks what your attorney has asked you for, and helps you get it to them on time. Ask your attorney before an advocate joins a call or meeting with them: bringing a third party into a privileged conversation can cost you that privilege, and that is your attorney's call to make, not ours.

How much does it cost?

Each advocate sets their own hourly rate, so what you pay depends on who you work with. You will be told that advocate’s rate before you are charged anything, and you can walk away at that point. The ProPera Legal software itself is free to start, and advocacy is a separate paid service you never have to use.
WHAT IT COSTS
See what a year of help really costs.
Set what your attorney charges and how much help you need each week, then compare the bill after a year. Advocates set their own rates, so ask yours what they charge.
$350$950
$40$250
30 min40 hrs
$25k$50k$75k$100kNow3 mo6 mo9 mo1 yearWith an attorneyWith an advocate
Attorney at $500 an hourAdvocate at $85 an hour
A year of 2 hours a week costs about $52,000 with an attorney and $8,840 with an advocate, which leaves $43,160 in your pocket.
Attorneys will tell you their first duty is to the court. Their invoices usually suggest the wallet ranks a little higher. An advocate works at a fraction of the rate, and only ever on your instructions.
Ready for someone in your corner?
Book a one-on-one consultation and tell an advocate exactly what you need. The fee is shown before you confirm, and every step after that starts with you.
ProPera Legal® is not a law firm. Advocates are not attorneys, are not paralegals, and no attorney supervises their work. They do not give legal advice, do not choose what you should file, do not tell you what the law means for your facts, and do not represent or speak for you before any court, clerk, agency, or opposing party. They act only at your specific direction. You remain responsible for every decision, deadline, and filing in your case. What counts as practicing law differs from state to state, and nothing on this page is legal advice or a representation that any particular assistance is permitted where you live. Nothing here is legal advice about what any law entitles you to. Advocates do not assist with bankruptcy, immigration, tax, or patent and trademark matters, which are governed by their own federal rules about who may be paid to prepare documents.