LegalMatch and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice to Address Potential Environmental Cases Nationwide

LegalMatch, America's leading provider of online legal services for both attorneys and clients, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a national public interest law firm that brings cases designed to make a difference, have announced an alliance to address potential environmental cases nationwide. As part of this agreement, LegalMatch will provide leads on possible precedent-setting environmental law cases and TLPJ, using its trial lawyers' skills and resources, will evaluate the possibility of legal action.

"I am very excited about this partnership with TLPJ," said Doug Ott, Vice-President of Strategic Alliances at LegalMatch. "It gives LegalMatch an opportunity to do what we do best -- match up potential clients with great lawyers. We'll be supporting the many environmental clients coming to us looking for help and a great public interest law firm that could represent them to fight pollution and protect our nation's environment."

The partnership with TLPJ represents the first pro bono LegalMatch membership in the company's history.

"We are thrilled to be working with LegalMatch on this crucial project," said TLPJ Executive Director Arthur Bryant. "It could bring us together with more people throughout America to prevent injuries and protect our country's air, water, and land. We hope it will enable LegalMatch to further its mission of making sure that those who need help can find appropriate, essential legal representation."

LegalMatch estimates providing dozens of potential environmental cases monthly to TLPJ, whose wide-ranging litigation docket covers everything from toxic tort and environmental protection cases to lawsuits designed to advance consumers' rights, civil rights and civil liberties, workers' rights, access to the courts, and protection of the poor and the powerless.

About Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice is the only public interest law firm dedicated to using trial lawyers' skills and resources to advance the public good. Founded in 1982, TLPJ utilizes a network of more than 3,000 of the nation's outstanding trial lawyers to pursue precedent-setting and socially significant litigation. TLPJ is the principal project of The TLPJ Foundation, a not-for-profit membership organization. It is headquartered in Washington, DC, with a West Coast office in Oakland, California. The TLPJ web site address is www.tlpj.org.

About LegalMatch
Established in 1999, with a formal site-launch in 2000, LegalMatch is the nation's premiere provider of online legal services. LegalMatch is the best place for consumers to find the right attorney and for attorneys to build and focus a practice. Corporate offices are located in San Francisco and Los Angeles. For more information regarding the company or this initiative, please contact Don Keane, Vice-President of Marketing at (415) 946-0855.