Bloomberg BNA: Settlement Allows LegalZoom to Offer Legal Services in N.C.

http://www.bna.com/settlement-allows-legalzoom-n57982063694/

November 18, 2015

Settlement Allows LegalZoom to Offer Legal Services in N.C.

From ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (also available on Bloomberg Law)

By Joan C. Rogers

Nov. 16 — 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. A consent decree entered Oct. 22 ends years of state-court UPL litigation between LegalZoom and the state bar. It also puts to bed a federal antitrust suit the company recently filed against the bar.

The settlement clears the way for LegalZoom ......

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Bloomberg Law: LegalZoom Fought the North Carolina Bar — And LegalZoom Won

https://bol.bna.com/legalzoom-fought-the-north-carolina-bar-and-legalzoom-won/

LegalZoom Fought the North Carolina Bar — And LegalZoom Won

November 13, 2015

Editor’s Note: The author of this article is a professor at University of Tennessee College of Law and wrote the book, Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession.

By Ben Barton, Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law

LegalZoom has settled its twin law suits against the North Carolina Bar. LegalZoom has basically won the battle and the war.

According to Forbes, LegalZoom agreed to have a licensed North Carolina attorney review its online forms and to inform potential customers that its forms are not a substitute for advice from a live attorney. LegalZoom says it was already doing that anyway. In return the State Bar Association appears to be rolling over on the unauthorized practice of law (“UPL”) fight, going so far as to support ......

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Outer Banks Voice: N.C. Bar, KDH attorney out of order in drive to oust judge

http://outerbanksvoice.com/2015/11/12/n-c-bar-town-attorney-use-back-door-in-effort-to-oust-judge/

N.C. Bar, KDH attorney out of order in drive to oust judge

By Russ Lay on November 12, 2015

Judge Jerry Tillett.

Town Attorney Steven Michael.

Two years ago, Kill Devil Hills officials told anyone who would listen that they were being victimized by a vengeful Superior Court judge, and many in local media sopped the story up with disappointing zeal.

But most of us felt the kerfuffle between KDH and Superior Court Judge Jerry R. Tillett .....

http://outerbanksvoice.com/2015/11/12/n-c-bar-town-attorney-use-back-door-in-effort-to-oust-judge/