Start an Inquiry
Tell us what problem you are trying to solve. You do not need to identify the correct audience, practice, or track before contacting NLI.
Begin With the Matter as You Understand It
NLI begins with the problem, record, forum, and useful work—not a predetermined package.
An inquiry requests review. It is not acceptance, enrollment, legal representation, preservation of a deadline, or a promise of outcome.
Choose an Inquiry Path
Applied work and education remain separate inquiries.
Applied Work
A dispute, institutional failure, process-created leverage, proposed settlement, governance problem, or decision requires a bounded record and defined instrument.
Education & Training
A course, seminar, practicum, or institutional program requires an audience, competence, format, timing, assessment, and adaptation plan.
Not Sure
Choose the closest path and explain the situation. NLI will route the inquiry during review.
Applied-Work Inquiry
Provide enough to evaluate fit without transmitting restricted material.
This form is for legal, institutional, civic, organizational, and settlement work. Use the guidance to provide enough information for fit review.
Identity and role
Your name, email, closest role, and counsel or professional-adviser status.
Forum and timing
The forum and jurisdiction, known deadlines, and any time-critical constraints.
Problem and blocked result
What is happening, and what decision, correction, or durable closure is blocked.
History and record
What has been filed, sent, agreed, ordered, or published; what record exists; what may be missing; and what adverse facts or prior rulings matter.
Requested result and constraints
The useful work product or institutional result, plus confidentiality, privilege, disclosure, and handling constraints.
Education & Training Inquiry
Describe the audience and the competence they must demonstrate.
This form is for courses, seminars, practicums, and institutional training—not a legal or case-related matter.
Audience and prior knowledge
Who should participate, what they already know, and how many people the program should serve.
Competence and assessment
What participants should be able to demonstrate and how that competence should be evaluated.
Format and timing
The desired delivery format, schedule, duration, and institution-specific adaptation.
What Happens Next
Substantive work begins only after written acceptance and scope.
The current working fit-review estimate is $500–$1,000, subject to confirmation before payment or work.
Inquiry
NLI reviews role, problem, urgency, conflict, record, capacity, and boundaries.
Fit review
NLI identifies likely practice and track, missing material, useful instrument, authorized user, professional dependencies, and whether the proposed work is service, public-interest, or mission-aligned. Public significance may inform fit but does not determine the merits or guarantee acceptance.
Written scope
Deliverables, responsibilities, timing, fee, confidentiality, revisions, exclusions, termination, and any research, publication, advocacy, or reform purpose are agreed. Secondary use requires appropriate authority and permission.
Delivery and correction
NLI performs the scoped work, marks limitations, coordinates required review, and preserves material correction.
Inquiry Boundary
An inquiry does not create an attorney-client relationship, authorize reliance instead of counsel, guarantee confidentiality or privilege, commit NLI to accept the matter, or promise a result.