One survivor. Five legal problems. One network.
A woman rebuilding her life after economic abuse doesn’t just need one lawyer. She may need a family law attorney for a protective order, someone who understands coerced debt, a VAWA self-petition, or a coerced beneficiary change — sometimes all at once. We’re building the legal guidance layer for all of it, and we need practicing attorneys across every specialty, including family law, to help us get it right — as paid consultants, before it reaches a single survivor.
Economic abuse touches every area of law.
A survivor’s case can land in family court, a debt collector’s file, an immigration filing, a will, or an eviction notice — sometimes several at once. These are the specialties where we’re recruiting founding legal consultants right now.
Protective orders, custody & safety planning
The specialty survivors reach for first. We’re building this track from the start, alongside every specialty below — not as an afterthought to it.
Coerced debt & credit repair
Nine states now have coerced-debt statutes letting survivors formally dispute and stop collection of debt run up in their name without consent. Arizona isn’t one of them yet — which means the guidance our chatbot gives today has to work entirely through federal tools (FCRA, FDCPA, FCBA, EFTA). We need a consumer-law attorney to make sure that guidance is exactly right.
VAWA self-petitions & U-visas
Abusers frequently use immigration status itself as a tool of economic control. A survivor needs to understand her options — and their limits — before she ever sits down with an attorney. Getting this content right, and getting the confidentiality framing right, matters enormously.
Coerced beneficiary & POA changes
Abusive partners can manipulate wills, powers of attorney, and beneficiary designations — sometimes as a direct threat, sometimes quietly. Survivors rebuilding their financial lives need to know these exist as issues at all before they can ask the right questions.
Eviction defense & lease disputes
Coerced debt and drained accounts routinely surface first as a housing crisis — a missed rent payment, a joint lease she can’t get off of. Getting a survivor accurate, basic guidance here can be the difference between stability and a second crisis.
Discharging coerced debt at scale
For survivors with debt too large to dispute account-by-account, bankruptcy may be the realistic path back to a clean credit file. That’s a serious decision that deserves accurate, careful guidance before she ever walks into an attorney’s office.
Tell us where you practice
If you practice in an area that touches financial abuse and isn’t listed here, we want to hear from you. The form below has an open field for exactly this.
A survivor before she ever calls an attorney.
Most survivors don’t know what a protective order actually does, what a coerced-debt dispute requires, or what a VAWA self-petition realistically involves, until they’re already sitting across from someone like you. A well-built chatbot can close some of that gap earlier — but only if the legal guidance inside it is right, and that takes real expertise in your specific specialty to build.
Compensated for your expertise
This is paid consulting work, not pro bono. Your time and legal knowledge are valued the way they would be for any client engagement.
Your knowledge, scaled
A chatbot built on accurate guidance in your specialty can reach far more survivors than any single case — work you shape once, used by many.
Structured, and confidential
Founded by a former Big 4 audit associate. Engagements are documented and scoped clearly, and every consultant works under NDA before seeing program details.
Paid, scoped, and NDA-protected from the start.
This is a consulting engagement, not a referral relationship — here's what that actually involves.
Review & validate chatbot content
Check the legal guidance the chatbot gives in your specialty — protective orders, coerced debt, immigration status, estate coercion, housing, and more — for accuracy and appropriate scope.
Paid consulting sessions
Structured, compensated hours reviewing and refining how the model responds. Rate and scope discussed directly before you commit to anything.
Ongoing advisory role
Optional continued involvement as the tool expands to new topics or jurisdictions — no obligation beyond the initial engagement.
NDA before program details
Protects both the product and the confidentiality of the survivors this tool is built to serve. Signing is the first step, not a formality at the end.
Tell us about your practice. We’ll follow up with an NDA.
A short form, then a real conversation — not an automated screening. We'll reach out within 2 business days with an NDA and next steps.
We’ll tell you exactly what we are.
The chatbot doesn’t exist yet — we're recruiting founding legal consultants across every specialty to help shape it from the start, not reviewing a finished product. Be Still Foundation's first cohort begins September 1. An early conversation with your practice means your expertise is in this from day one.
Let’s talk scope and compensation.
No commitment required to start — just a conversation about your specialty, your availability, your rate, and where your expertise fits best.