LegalZoom Review: It's Like Watching Children Play at Being Lawyers
Want to set up a LLC?
Want to wait for a month or two with endless delays, paperwork errors, pathetic excuses and widespread incompetence?
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So - I recently went through starting a LLC using LegalZoom. While the registration of the LLC itself was none too difficult, achieving basic tasks like foreign qualification (to operate in states other than DE or wherever you set up the LLC) or registered agent services seem to be completely beyond the capability of LegalZoom to do efficiently.
For example - I ordered a expedited foreign qualification order on July 2nd. It is now August 8th. After assuring me that it would be done in 10-15 days, LegalZoom sent in the first required document yesterday morning - to Delaware. We are talking about the first step - I am still two weeks away from getting my foreign qualification.
So yes - LegalZoom will "save you money" upfront: they are cheap. But if you are say... trying to run or set up a business and have things like overhead, payroll, opportunity costs, then LegalZoom is one huge waste of money, time and effort.
Unless you like watching untrained incompetent law-school dropouts (actually - dropout is probably too qualified... more like 5th graders) pretend to be lawyers and systematically fuck up everything they touch, I would recommend getting a real lawyer.
Want to wait for a month or two with endless delays, paperwork errors, pathetic excuses and widespread incompetence?
I have a website for you!
So - I recently went through starting a LLC using LegalZoom. While the registration of the LLC itself was none too difficult, achieving basic tasks like foreign qualification (to operate in states other than DE or wherever you set up the LLC) or registered agent services seem to be completely beyond the capability of LegalZoom to do efficiently.
For example - I ordered a expedited foreign qualification order on July 2nd. It is now August 8th. After assuring me that it would be done in 10-15 days, LegalZoom sent in the first required document yesterday morning - to Delaware. We are talking about the first step - I am still two weeks away from getting my foreign qualification.
So yes - LegalZoom will "save you money" upfront: they are cheap. But if you are say... trying to run or set up a business and have things like overhead, payroll, opportunity costs, then LegalZoom is one huge waste of money, time and effort.
Unless you like watching untrained incompetent law-school dropouts (actually - dropout is probably too qualified... more like 5th graders) pretend to be lawyers and systematically fuck up everything they touch, I would recommend getting a real lawyer.
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