The following is from the NC State Bar website: Unauthorized Practice of Law in North Carolina We’ve been helping North Carolina lawyers succeed since 1977. Lawyers Mutual is committed to keeping you safe and successful as you adapt to working remotely in the new normal. Your legal practice has likely been Zooming a lot the past few months. “We are seeing an aspiring competitor angrily lash out after failing to compete in the marketplace,” a LegalZoom spokesperson says in the Journal piece. LegalZoom “provided legal advice to the plaintiffs by selecting classification and modifying the goods and services description from the template thereby applying specific law to facts.”.LegalZoom used “trademark document specialists” who were not lawyers.The plaintiff engaged in “unauthorized practice of law, false advertising, unfair competition and other claims.”.The plaintiff applied for two trademarks through LegalZoom the service that was provided crossed the line into the practice of law.He says if he operated like LegalZoom, he would be disbarred.” “He points to malpractice insurance, CLEs and other overhead costs an attorney like himself must absorb that a company like LegalZoom does not. “‘I can’t do what they’re doing, but they can do what I’m doing,’” the plaintiff says in this ABA Journal article. The state bars were included because the plaintiff has offices in those states or LegalZoom has employees there. Patent and Trademark Office and the state bars in Arizona, California and Texas. The lawsuit was filed by a California patent attorney who says he wants to create an “equal playing field.” The complaint names as defendants LegalZoom, its co-founders, the U.S.
LegalZoom has been sued in California for the unauthorized practice of law by preparing and filing trademark applications. Email Pin on Pinterest Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
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