ABOUT THE CONSULTANT MOBILE APPLICATION

CONSULTANT is a technological online platform (marketplace) that enables anyone to receive online legal advice using a mobile application, order a service offered by a specialist to solve their problem, and also conveniently monitor the progress of the service through the mobile application. At the same time, the opportunity for lawyers, advocates, accountants and other professionals to provide online consulting services, as well as advertising services of their activities, in order to receive potential customers.

People will no longer make mistakes by referring to unreliable information from the Internet or advice from unknown people, will not waste time traveling to a specialist and will save money on paying for the services of legal companies. Specialists will be able to earn additional money for online consultations and will save money on paying marketers and paying Facebook, Google, etc.

During the period of martial law, we started a volunteer initiative - counseling people free of charge for people and with a small incentive for lawyers at the expense of grant funds. Thanks to this initiative, more than 1,500 free consultations have been provided for Ukrainians, which are available at the link - https://consultant.net.ua/statti

At the same time, we left the possibility for people to pay for consultations. About 10 percent of users of the mobile application pay for the work of lawyers, regardless of the opportunity to get a consultation for free.

The critical value of our initiative and the already existing product (mobile applications) is that for the majority of Ukrainians there is not enough information about their rights and obligations and they critically need expert advice in order to understand what and how to do, where to turn, which documents to collect, how to act in conditions of martial law and after it.

The CONSULTANT mobile application can help the state in the following areas:

1. Informing users about innovations in legislation and advising on the application of laws.
2. Preferential legal support for military personnel and their families, vulnerable sections of the population, as well as the population that suffered the most due to military actions.
3. The state can clearly control all legal processes that take place through the Consultant (the consultant is built as a CRM for the client and the lawyer, all actions and payments are clearly recorded)
4. Additional service for recording destruction and preparation of legal documentation for compensation for damage caused.
5. Service for fixing and preparing documents for compensation for moral damage caused by war.
6. Service for recording and preparation of documents for Ukrainian enterprises aimed at recovery from the
7. Russian Federation of direct losses and lost profits due to forced downtime.
8. Service for collection of funds in connection with the loss of the only breadwinner in the family.
9. Legal support service for Ukrainians all over the world, so that every Ukrainian knows that the state cares about him.

Compensation for damage caused by the death or deterioration of health of Ukrainians as a result of the war -
https://consultant.net.ua/service/one-time-cash-assistance-for-injuries

As of June 1, 2022, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, there were 9,094 civilian casualties. Relatives and families of the victims have the right to compensation for material and moral damages caused by the Russian Federation.

Additionally https://consultant.net.ua/consultant-article/16

Compensation for damage caused by the destruction of citizens' homes -

https://consultant.net.ua/service/damaged-property

According to the information provided by Svitlana Startseva, deputy director of the department of the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development, according to preliminary estimates, 116,000 residential buildings (with a total area of 14 million square meters), in which about 3.5 million citizens lived, were destroyed or damaged in Ukraine. According to a preliminary estimate, the total damage caused to the housing fund already exceeds 100 billion hryvnias.

Compensation for damage caused to Ukrainian business -

https://consultant.net.ua/services/69

According to a study commissioned by the Kyiv School of Economics: in the first month of hostilities, 86% of Ukrainian companies slowed down or stopped their work, and 14% of them cited destroyed or damaged facilities as the reasons for such difficulties, and 29% cited logistics problems. According to the latest estimates of the Ministry of Economy, the total losses of the economy since the start of hostilities amount to about UAH 564-600 billion.

"Any recovery of damages requires the preparation of evidence and relevant documents to state structures or courts, including international bodies. Without the involvement of specialized lawyers, it will be difficult to recover damages from ordinary citizens. And it will be difficult for the state to control these processes without technological third-party services." - lawyer Andrii Prykhodko

The service fully works in consultation mode (mobile applications are available on Google Play and Apstore), during the period of martial law there were more than 2,200 real consultations.

The CONSULTANT legal marketplace is already the best startup and legal marketplace of Ukraine today and provides its users with the following advantages and opportunities:

1. Order the services of a lawyer (advocate) with a control mode for the client
2. Possibility to buy documents (application, complaint, report, contract)
3. Opportunity for lawyers to publish articles
4. An opportunity for lawyers to offer new services on the service
5. An active rating and feedback system
6. Safe agreement, transparent payment of lawyer's services only for the result
7. Step-by-step payment for the services of a lawyer - so as not to pay a lot at once
8. An activity system has been implemented (push, telegram, email)
9. The referral system makes it possible to receive funds on a card or free legal consultations by inviting friends
10. Strict requirements for the verification of specialists based on educational criteria and experience - only proven, professional and reliable lawyers (attorneys)
11. The system of ratings of experts is a transparent rating of lawyers (lawyers), the rating is formed by the system and users
12. 24/7 online support system - a 24-hour lawyer (advocate) throughout the country
13. An automated system of free online consultations for users in a mobile application
14. Integration with open databases, which makes it possible to involve all lawyers, accountants, notaries, etc. in the territory of Ukraine

At the same time, legal services in Ukraine today are only at the stage of transition to legal tech, which in turn leads to:

• Low-developed culture of online payments in Ukraine
• Low level of trust in legal marketplaces (platforms)
• A large number of free online supports that hide the real cost of legal services
• The legal services market is relatively conservative and difficult to innovate
• Potential competition of such legal services as Legalzoom or Rocketlawyer, which may enter the Ukrainian market
• Low level of legal culture of Ukrainians