LegalZoom.com: No Substitute for Nonprofit, Trademark or Copyright Legal Counsel

Taken directly from LegalZoom.com’s website, their disclaimer reads, “LegalZoom is not a law firm, and the employees of LegalZoom are not acting as your attorney. LegalZoom's legal document service is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney.” It further reads that, “LegalZoom is prohibited from providing any kind of advice, explanation, opinion, or recommendation to a consumer about possible legal rights, remedies, defenses, options, selection of forms or strategies.”

If you use LegalZoom.com or other do-it-yourself document preparation service with a legal-sounding name to prepare your Nonprofit, Trademark or Copyright application, you run the risk of filing an extremely flawed document. As these types of services merely take otherwise publicly available forms and plug in the blanks with information you provide to them, without the benefit of legal advice and guidance, you may as well give a go at it yourself. Should you choose to have your documents prepared this way, you run a huge risk of filing a flawed application, for which the IRS, US Patent and Trademark Office and Copyright Office may reject for legal reasons outside the scope of this non-legal service.

See the following links for LegalZoom Customer Complaints, Allegations of Consumer Fraud and Critiques

LegalZoom Mistake In Forming Non-Profit Delaware Corporation
LegalZoom Deceptive Trademark Practice
LegalZoom Applied For A Copyright and Never Received It
LegalZoom.com Faces Consumer Fraud Class Action Over Trademark Filing Fees
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