LegalZoom and the North Carolina State Bar are no longer at loggerheads over whether the company’s offer of personalized legal services to consumers amounts to the unauthorized practice of law, ending a federal antitrust suit the company recently filed against the bar (LegalZoom.com, Inc. v. N.C. State Bar, N.C. Super. Ct., Wake Cnty., 11 CVS 1511, settled 10/22/15).
A consent decree entered Oct. 22 ends years of state-court UPL litigation between LegalZoom and the state bar. The settlement clears the way for LegalZoom to offer not just online document services but also prepaid legal services plans in ...
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