Lawguide connects Ugandans who have a legal problem to the law firm that handles their kind of matter. One phone call, in plain language, ending in a referral to a real advocate.
We are signing up the founding firms now.
The public line opens at launch. Firms on the waiting list are told the number, and start receiving referrals, before it does.
Someone describes their problem the way they would describe it to a friend. No legal words needed.
The question is matched against Ugandan judgments, legislation, gazettes and hansard entered by practising lawyers.
They get the general position in plain language. When the situation needs advice specific to them, we say so rather than guess.
The matter is recorded and passed to a firm that handles that practice area, in that district.
Registration is free, takes a minute, and commits you to nothing. It puts your firm in front of callers who have already been matched to your practice area and your district — people who need exactly the work you do.
You tell us what you take. Referrals only reach you when the caller's matter is one of them.
Callers are pointed to firms they can actually reach, not to whoever registered first.
No firm appears in a referral until a person from that firm has confirmed it wants them.