The large consumer-focused legal services website LegalZoom has applied to become the next alternative business structure in Arizona, the state that now boasts the country’s most lenient law firm ownership rules.
The move would allow LegalZoom to hire lawyers as employees to provide legal advice directly to customers, instead of having to rely solely on an independent network of attorneys who contract with the company.
LegalZoom’s ABS application, if approved, could be the most significant test to date for the Arizona rule reform. This is in part because of LegalZoom’s size and reach as a company that went public just ...
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