LegalZoom - For Capturing the True Spirit Driving Your Business Contracts
Rating: 10 out of 10
December 13, 2018
JB
Vetted Review
Verified User
3 years of experience
We first discovered LegalZoom when navigating the ocean of online legal document creation technologies. I've always said legal advice by the hour is a broken model, and the trend toward DIY software proved I wasn't alone in my thinking. The challenge with software is the intelligence required for each unique situation is not as cookie-cutter as one would like to believe.
Software can create any plug & play form, but the true 'spirit' of a contract cannot as easily be captured. That still requires human expertise which is why we chose LegalZoom.
Software can create any plug & play form, but the true 'spirit' of a contract cannot as easily be captured. That still requires human expertise which is why we chose LegalZoom.
- Assurance that the business structure is established right, from the start because both successful growth and a successful exit are heavily dependent on which you choose.
- Objectivity: LegalZoom affords you access to a myriad of legal experts, so you do too. They review your business without the bias inherent in being a founder or executive management. The final decision is still yours, but it's a much better informed one.
- Agility: It's nearly impossible to keep up with all of the legislation, and interpretation of such legislation (case law) too quickly and an inhouse or even outsourced billable hour team whose goal is 'billable hour' is not objective either. Flat-fee pricing is the only answer.
- Strenghtens our commitment to our strategic plan by the objective review, adding expertise in areas we were less aware of.
- Over threee years we've had several real-time discussions with a few of their experts and every one was extremely beneficial and insightful.
While both AribaCM and ContractWorks were very good, neither technologies came with the breadth of legal expertise, at a flat rate, that LegalZoom does. As I mentioned software can automate nearly any process, such as contract development and management, but software has yet to be able to replace the level of human intelligence required to capture the spirit of any business contract.