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The Pre-Paid Legal Story: The Story of One Man, His Company, and Its Mission to Provide Affordable Legal Protection for Everyone

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The essense of a great mind is a powerful imagination, because without being able to imagine things the way they are NOT, not even the greatest intellect can change things from the way they are. Harland Stonecipher's imagination of a world in which affordable access to justice--true equal justice under law for everyone, not just the rich--has become a reality thanks to the hard work and sacrifice of himself and his associates at Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. This is a business story, a personal story, and one of the most important stories you'll read this or any other year. As a member of Pre-Paid Legal and one of its many dedicated Independent Associates, I urge everyone in the USA and Canada to read this remarkable book by a remarkable man whose common sense, intellect, determination and imagination are making your life better every day.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Very excellent, inspirational and easy read -- not only for cutting-edge 21st Century, Wave-4 Network Marketers, but for anyone with an appetite for turning a dream into an extraordinarily successful reality. This book illuminated the genesis of Harland Stonecipher's gutsy leadership and adherence to his vision, mission and guiding principles which resulted in the PrePaid Legal Revolution.

I was wowed by Stonecipher's living legacy of an affordable access to the legal system for middle-income members and families. Protection, peace of mind and security by a nationwide network of top-rated provider law firms is quite impressive.

Also intriguing, are PPL's pro-active efforts to embrace little-known business trends that virtually guarantee the continued growth of the network-marketing industry's track record of making more millionaires.

Looks like the secret's out on "The Best Value in America." I won't just tell folks to get this book; I'll buy several and present them in gold wrappers. ==================================================

I've been a Pre-Paid Legal member for 16 years. As a single parent raising 3 children, this membership has been a LIFE SAVER.

PPLSI has saved me countless thousands, especially on car warranties that insurance companies did NOT want to honor. They have helped me with insurance claims too. The adjuster is NOT your friend. It is their job to reduce or deny your claim !

Pre-Paid Legal is one of the main PIONEERS in the Industry, and the industry now also bears the company's name in part.

Like any product or service, when the VALUE is becoming WELL known, then imitations start popping up, some good, some bad, and some terrible. Those that market the imitations will try to bad-mouth the company they are trying to copy. This makes no sense at all.

A good copy of a priceless painting may be very valuable, however the ORIGINAL is priceless.

I remember what Zig Ziglar says when a person says a product or service is "JUST LIKE" another product. (Paraphrasing) He says I understand what you mean. My wife and I are "JUST ALIKE" We both have two ears, two eyes, two arms, two legs, one mouth. We love to eat and dance. However, there are a FEW "UNIQUE DIFFERENCES" and that is WHY I married my wife. There are also a FEW "UNIQUE DIFFERENCES" between the products that I'd like to explain.

There are some "UNIQUE DIFFERENCES" in Pre-Paid Legal (PPL) Services, and that is what the book points out. ONLY PPL has a "Closed" panel of lawyers so they can AFFORD to INVEST vast amounts of money to connect the provider law firms in the states by computer to Ada OK, train them and their staff to give the BEST quality service, owns the 800# to the law firms, and give the law firms daily, weekly, and monthly report cards to help them give the best service. They mail out surveys to those members who use the service to have them rate the lawyers.

PPLSI is the ONLY company that specializes in the Pre-Paid legal service that is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and is DEBT FREE to boot.

PPLSI pays the law firms hundreds of thousands per month to provide membership services at "No Extra cost" to members. If the law firms do NOT give the BEST services to members or can NOT keep up with the rapid growth of the membership base, then they are replaced. Many law firms are on a waiting list to replace them. The Texas firm is paid over $700,000 a month, or over $8.4 million dollars a year and that figure is increasing in ALL states !

Thus, Pre-Paid legal members are (collectively) the law firm's #1 client. They are given the SERVICE and RESPECT that Pre-Paid Legal MEMBERS deserve by the nation's TOP-rated law firms. They have a network of lawyers in case you need a closer lawyer.

I have the NEW "Legal Shield" for 24/7 NATIONWIDE help if a family member is detained, questioned, or arrested by a law officer or a security guard, with a few common-sense exceptions.

In my opinion, Pre-Paid Legal Services and the book is like the TIP of an iceberg. You are impressed by the 10% of the iceberg that you can see, but the 90% BELOW the water is what will really knock you off your feet ! What is NOT yet told in the book, will make a great sequel !

Harland Stonecipher wants to help make many MILLIONAIRES. The book tells of only a few. However, the "Profiles of Success" available from associates has the stories of over 200 people ... well on their way to being millionaires.

"The Pre-Paid Legal Story" talks about how we are "one big family" that helps other family members and prays for them, like Wilburn Smith when he was expected to die from cancer. I understand that Wilburn was in the hospital for 4 months, and in ICU for over 40 days. Then 3 days after he had a national prayer call made for him, he went home from ICU !

It was too late to include the story about the prayers that went out for Ken Moore in September, 1999 when he had two back-to-back severe heart attacks and was NOT expected to live through the day. Wilburn Smith, the PPLSI President, sent his personal plan and pilot to Dallas to bring Randy and Pat Moore, his son and wife, and Bake Baker, a close friend, to Oklahoma City, OK. The associates prayed for Ken who has made a REMARKABLE recovery !

If they told the WHOLE story, it would be thicker than "War and Peace," and some people might NOT believe that a company or business opportunity could be this GREAT. They played down the story to make it more believable. The TRUTH will blow your mind !

One major point that needs to be made are cases when associates (with good downlines) are hospitalized. When Wilburn Smith was in the hospital, his earnings did NOT stop or go down. Wilburn's easrnings increased, because of his over-rides from his growing downline. Ken Moore has had about 6 major hospital stays for heart attacks and strokes, and other reasons. Yet each time, he was making more money after a hospitalization than before he went into the hospital.

The book mentions about Woody and Fran Alexander taking off about THREE years for personal family reasons, yet their checks NEVER STOPPED !

What company can you name where you can stop working for any period , let alone THREE YEARS, and not be history ?

Another unbelievable fact is PPLSI has NEVER raised the rates to members in over 28 years, and they don't PLAN on raising any rates. Can you name even ONE product or service that was sold 28 years ago that is the same price today, as it was then ? PPLSI has new policies with MORE benefits that are more per month, but the member does NOT have to upgrade or pay more.

I enrolled on 4-1-1984 and paid $10 a month, then they UPGRADED my benefits to what brand new members were paying $16/month. Yet my membership dues remained ONLY $10, even though I was getting the benefits of the $16 plan. That show how much PPLSI VALUES their members. The service from the lawyers is outstanding. You don't get services, calls, or letters written by clerks or paralegals. Your services are done by SKILLED, highly compensated, TOP-rated lawyers.

I just wish the book had more member testimonials of these great services. I won't leave home without my PPL member card and "Legal Shield"

It is amazing that PPLSI has changed the compensation plans to fine-tune them. Yet each time, the plan was BETTER benefits for the associates, rather than DECREASING their compensation like other companies.

I'm looking forward to the sequel to this book !

If anyone doubts what is in the book, they can read magazine reports about PPLSI in Money, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, Equities, and many other EXPERTS that would NOT risk their professional standing to exaggerate the truth. They PRAISE PPLSI !

The deeper and harder that anyone INVESTIGATES PPLSI, the more impressed they will be. Financial magazines and stock broker firms have invested countless hours with their EXPERT skills and the money to do a VERY THOROUGH investigation, and have been writing great reviews of PPLSI...

As the great Dr. Martin Luther King once said, " We refuse to believe that the Bank of Justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand, the riches of freedom and the security of justice." If only he had met Mr. Harland Stonecipher.

No matter what race, creed, color, or ethnicity, you now have a way to "cash your own check" and demand equal access to the justice system as well as "withdraw from the vaults" of PPL's incredicle financial opportunity. Harland's mission should be acknowledged and heralded by anyone ever having their rights trampled on or been denied justice. On top of that, he had provided a way for each Independent PPL associate to have an opportunity to achieve financial success beyond imagination. Everyone benefits from Pre-Paid Legal Services: The company, the independent associates, the lawyers, as well as the justice system itself. Everyone needs to read Harland's incredible story and his plans to change the justice system in North America!

I suppose I am biased. My life totally changed 5 short months ago when I became a Pre-Paid Legal Associate. I had the service and only mentioned it casually to friends, when I discovered the need in the marketplace. Pre-Paid Legal is a much needed service and it is going to change the face of justice in this country. It is amazing how much money the Pre-Paid Legal Associates are making simply by telling others about this much needed service.

This book details the life and vision of Harold Stonecipher. I had the opportunity to hear him speak and he is powerful. A God-fearing man. A visionary. He helped me remember that Justice is not a commodity, its a right! Read this book. Know the story. Change your life.

Building your dream is serious business. I does not just happen, you need to take control of your life and just do it...The events and stories in this book can help you recognize how our actions DO have RE-actions that can change the world we live in. The only thing you need is, hard work, commitment and dedication. DO not believe in what other might say, read it from the source, and you too can reach your untapped potential. Mr. Stonecipher and his team did a wonderful job capturing the journey that we no dought will change our "Justice System" for the better in a very short time. Enjoy it and be prosper.

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The more you read the commentary from the reader from Georgia, the more you will realize that he/she is motivated exclusively by envy and/or greed and, most definitely ignorance.

The reader from Georgia sounds like an attorney who is likely to miss out on making his/her customary LARGE hourly fees. It is understandable that he/she would be so upset because many of those LARGE fees have now been made eliminated for those wise enough to purchase the Pre-Paid Legal Services membership.

I am personally happy, as a Pre-Paid Legal Services MEMBER, because I saved over $10,000.00 from a lawsuit that resulted from a purchase I made of something that, LITERALLY, exploded when I turned it on the first time after it was delivered.

I did not realize (just like the majority of "working class" people would have not realized,) that the "venue" for the contract I signed when I purchased the equipment was in a state far away from the state I live in. If I would have not been a Pre-Paid Legal member, I would have had to travel to that other state, find a hotel, find a competent attorney to fight for my rights; or, I would have had to go to that state and fight for my rights myself (not a good idea,) or, flat out, just lose the case by not showing up.

Instead, I called Pre-Paid Legal Services (on their toll-free 800#.) And, they had a competent attorney contact me to get all the details he needed to go to court and WIN the case on my behalf in that far away state.

I think that the fact that he won the case should be enough to demonstrate the level of competence for the attorneys that Pre-Paid Legal Services employs. My understanding is that they HAVE TO be at least "A-V" rated. Ask a lawyer what that means, and if THEY have that high rating.

More importantly, my case, which is (I am sure) only one of thousands of examples of satisfied Pre-Paid Legal members' cases proves that the service simply WORKS! Otherwise, they would have been shut down since they got started back in 1972. Right?

Or, they would have not been rated the 33rd company (out of thousands) in the New York Stock Exchange in 1999 by Equities Magazine, as soon as they got there. Prior to that, they were rated # 13 -ahead of Microsoft, which was rated #17- by Money Magazine in the American Stock Exchange, in 1998.

Even if the reader from Georgia is an attorney, he/she ought to consider buying a membership; because, considering his/her way of thinking, he/she is VERY likely to end up saying or doing the wrong thing and end up needing an expensive attorney to represent him/her. Many people don't know it, but lawyers need lawyers too. And, THEY, sometimes, cannot afford their own colleagues' LARGE fees either!

Oh! The reader from Georgia insinuated a comparison between Pre-Paid Legal Services marketing/sales (or whatever) structure to that of another multi-million dollar Network Marketing company, that I am not associated with. And, correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the company that the reader from Georgia is mocking is the same one that has been succeeding for many decades with BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS of dollars in sales. Amusingly, they have done it without the expert opinion of the reader from Georgia; and, they have also done it by NOT listening to those who have not taken the time to learn about the power of Network Marketing.

I am sure that, in his infinite ignorance, the reader from Georgia does not realize that he/she has been (and will continue to be) "Network Marketing" his/her ENTIRE life, maybe just not getting paid for it. A quick lesson and I'll be done. Network marketing, my dear reader from Georgia, is simply "word of mouth" advertising. Jesus used it. And, he has the largest organization in the world. Why shouldn't we? May God Bless you and your loved ones.

"Justice for all, under law" - is a revered icon of legal
protection guaranteed by the constitution. Truly a great idea but seemingly a myth to most of us. Legal protection, and access
to justice are two oceans apart. The most common sentiment is that 'equal justice' is only for those who can pay for it. A more
revealing picture was painted from this partial quote by Dr. Derek Bok, former law school president of Harvard University-"there is far too much law for those who can afford it, and far too little for those who cannot. No one can be satisfied with this state of affairs. The costs of hiring a lawyer... and the mysteries of the legal process discourages most people of modest means from trying to impose their rights." This 'need' for an affordable access to the justice system is an on going battle for everyone of us. Mr Harland Stonecipher is a trailblazer and poignantly captured in this book "The Pre-Paid Legal Story" how a simple idea has revolutionized the way of accessing the justice system - one family membership at a time. Never again will a day go by where a member has to check his pocket first, before he can get legal advise whenever he needs one. This idea
is now available to some Canadian provinces and to most of the
U.S.A. As a member of prepaid, you can call your attorney anytime during regular business hours and resolve important legal or family issues. Making important decisions has just become easier. Knowing and defending your rights is a phone call away, or through a letter written by a lawyer on member's behalf.
Justice for all has become a reality to some 1.2 million members of prepaid- thanks to Mr Stonecipher, for struggling to share his idea, and story. This is a must read book for everyone who
needs to benefit from the promise of 'Justice to all, under law'.

...which is exactly what I thought when I first heard about the Pre-Paid Legal Services. Even as I read the book, I thought that people just won't believe all this ~ it's too good to be true. I am here to tell you that the Pre-Paid Legal Story is true and Harland & Shirley Stonecipher are salt-of-the-earth, honest, hard-working people who want to make these countries better places for every American and Canadian.

The book is easy to read and gives a clear and concise overview of the Stoneciphers' mission. It's a must read for those who visualize how great our world could be and who are willing to do something about it.

Equal Justice for All!

One man, with a purpose, can make a difference! Harland Stonecipher, over the last 30 years, has been committed to changing our legal system and making it truly accessible to all. For 30 years he has persued his mission, and along the way has created legal justice for all. This book beautifully portrays the full story of his life's struggle and his ongoing journey to change an out-dated, and sometimes unfair, legal system. At the same time, because of his incredibly entrepreneurial spirit, he has created an opportunity for thousands of independent associates to create financial independence by helping bring pre-paid legal services to the marketplace. We are indebted to Mr. Stonecipher for his vision and persistence.