The company was founded in February, and began full operations this month in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The company has built a base of lawyers they use, all of which have been vetted. In the June 16th nytimes.com article, ''Delivering a Lawyer Within 15 Minutes (Soda Extra)'', Miles was quoted as saying about them: ''I'd hire any one of these attorneys to represent me or my family.''
Lawyer Up's main customers are college students and their parents. According to the June 15th ctpost.com article, ''Easton man says you need to Lawyer Up in advance'', the idea for Lawyer Up came after he heard a story from a friend about his son, who attends college. He and his friends were stopped late at night. The car was searched and then towed because of an expired registration. In this case, no one was arrested, but it made Miles think that he might not know what to do in the situation, that it was probably intimidating, and that many others probably felt the same way.
According to the ctpost.com article, Martin J. Minnella, of Waterbury-based law practice Moynahan and Minnella, agrees with the concept of Lawyer Up, and said: ''...people who are arrested for the first time are disoriented and confused. Police may use the confusion to their advantage and get suspects to provide admissions that could make it difficult to defend them in court.''
''There has got to be something more fair than a pay phone and a phone book in a police station somewhere,'' Miles was quoted as saying in the nytimes.com article.
