What are some good websites to go to for free consultation on employment law?

Most “law” is free. Simply find a law library, either online or in a building such as a university offering education in law, and just read cases.

“Consultation” is how attorneys make their money (and what they can be sued for if it goes awry). Except for the come-on “free consultations” that they sometimes offer to prospective clients, that advice is pretty well guarded, and not freely available, partly because every case is different, and advice will change based upon context and client.

As a corollary, would you trust a physician who offered “free online consultation”? Again, anyone can read anatomy textbooks and generalized medical case histories, but “the practice” is what pays the doctor’s bills, and why he spent all of those years in school. He couldn’t “give it away” even if he wanted to.

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Don’t expect a free consultation on employment law. There is information online, but unless you read it in a current book of statutes, along with update addendum, don’t depend on it. You may actually be able to find your answer on the U.S. Dept. of Labor website. If you can find access to a law library, a clerk there could probably help you find what you are looking for.

Every state offers pro-bono law advice. Sometimes you have to travel to get there and you can’t get advice over the phone, but it’s free, and it’s likely to be reliable because you would be talking to law students. Start by calling a university with a Law department and ask them where you could go.

I have used one of those “free law advice” websites. Yes, I did have to sign up for it, but it WAS free. I am pretty sure some of the advice I got was from knowledgeable attorneys (it seemed sound), and some of the other responses were pretty judgmental and lame.