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May 15, 2009 11:31 pm US/Eastern

Website Answers The Question: Who Can I Sue?

DORAL (CBS4) ― If something in the water made you sick, or you were involved in a slip and fall, you might feel like you're in the dark unless you spend money seeking a legal consultation with an attorney. You might not even know who to contact in the first place.

A South Florida company has started a website that answers the popular question: who can I sue? It's a way to get your legal questions answered for free. A

corporate lawyer turned CEO says he wants to make it easy to get the answers.

"The average person on the street, who doesn't have a rolodex of lawyers that they can call, they don't know where they can go," said whocanisue.com CEO Curtis Wolfe.

The question resonates across South Florida, in the form of an advertised website "whocanisue.com", and the company wants to cover north Florida too. Victims can go online and find out what their legal options are for free.

Ily Socas owns the Imani Santini salon in Doral.

"This is a hair salon, you get to hear a lot about what is going on in people's lives," said Socas. "I have had people asking me for opinions, and I am not a lawyer."

And recently a former client gave Socas a reason to seek legal advice.

"I trust every one, and she gave me a check that bounced; it was a little more than five hundred dollars," she said.

So Socas logged on and found out her situation is better handled in small claims court, but there are other legal categories that provide you with some basic advice.

Curtis doesn't think his site perpetuates the litigious society we live in.

"I don't think so at all; we are giving people more information," said Curtis.

And the best part about this kind of legal appointment is that it's free.

"There is nothing better than free," said Socas.

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