Shakti Legal Solutions Information

We all have the right to seek justice, but that doesn’t mean everyone has access to those rights. Every year, nearly 8.5 million Australians have a legal problem but less than half access legal help. We appreciate obtaining legal assistance can be difficult for many reasons but ‘inadequate funding of legal assistance services’ and ‘affordability of legal representation’ have consistently been identified as barriers to access to justice. While community legal centres and Legal Aid centres exist and provide free legal help, these organisations are often under-funded, under-resourced and as a result, unable to help everyone that seeks their assistance. Then there are people who are neither eligible for free legal assistance nor in a position to pay traditional lawyer fees. This is the ‘missing middle,’ and together, these issues contribute to the access to justice gap. Making access to justice more accessible. Shakti Legal Solutions facilitates access to justice for the missing middle and empowers individuals, organisations and communities to directly support our efforts to bridge the access to justice gap. Not your traditional law firm. We are a remote, paper-lite firm. This means our overheads are low and so are our fees. We use technology to improve efficacy and efficiency. This allows us to use our legal training for more strategic tasks; i.e., finding creative and cost-effective solutions for our clients. We’ve also created an innovative business model which includes sliding scale pricing and options for clients to ‘top up’ their legal fees and pay it forward to help subsidize the cost of legal fees for another client. We may compromise on costs, but we won't compromise on quality or competence.