Screengrab from mylegalwhiz.com

MANILA -- Having a difficult time understanding legal terms?

Filipino-made website mylegalwhiz.com provides online legal knowledge that is tailor-fit for law students, lawyers and even ordinary people who may have trouble understanding legal terms.

The website’s founder, Atty. Dexter Feliciano, said the idea came during his law school years.

“Mylegalwhiz’s vision is really to make legal knowledge accessible to the public. It is now being used by ordinary citizens. The government is using it, different corporations and organizations are also using it,” he said in an interview on ANC.

The website, according to Feliciano, features a legal engineer assistant that caters to questions and concerns of users.

“My legalwhiz is like an expanding legal brain. It’s not only a static database. We grow the knowledge database not only based on our internal efforts but from the questions,” Feliciano said.

Topics in the website are also organized to carry citations depending on what the user needs—cases, definitions, or comparisons among others.

The website, however, comes with a subscription fee, depending on the purpose of use.

Table of subscription fees. Screengrab from mylegalwhiz.com

Feliciano said users of the website can avail of services such as a draft contract template, case summaries and extensive legal research which can be customized later on.

They also have a special website for overseas Filipino workers who may have questions regarding the law (ofw.mylegalwhiz.com). It seeks to help Filipino families and their relatives abroad gain access to legal knowledge and assistance on employment, family and support, document drafting (contracts, affidavits, deeds) and taxes.

Research and development for the website began in 2008 and now has 15,000 users including corporations and their employees, as well as schools and their students.