# LegalZoom

> LegalZoom is a public online legal-services company that helps individuals and small businesses form companies, stay compliant, protect intellectual property, create estate plans and reach attorneys. Its strategic shift is from one-off document filing toward recurring subscriptions that combine software, automation and human expertise.

- **Founded:** 2001
- **Headquarters:** Mountain View, United States
- **Founders:** Brian S. Lee (Co-founder), Brian P. Y. Liu (Co-founder and former CEO), Edward R. Hartman (Co-founder), Robert Shapiro (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 1,196 employees and approximately 700 contractors and consultants worldwide as of December 31, 2025; a 13% workforce reduction was announced in August 2026.
- **Products:** Business formation, Business compliance, Attorney plans, Intellectual property, Estate planning
- **Notable:** Helped form 5.0 million businesses by December 31, 2025., Delivered 4.4 million estate-planning solutions by December 31, 2025., Reached 1.939 million subscription units at the end of 2025.

## Products & services

- **Business formation** — Guided LLC, corporation, nonprofit, DBA and sole-proprietorship formation, including preparation and government filing.
- **Business compliance** — Annual reports, compliance calendars, licenses, operating agreements, EIN applications, registered-agent coverage and dissolutions.
- **Attorney plans** — Prepaid subscriptions with scheduled consultations, document review, legal templates, eSignatures and discounts on additional services.
- **Intellectual property** — Trademark searches and registrations, monitoring, copyrights and provisional-patent support.
- **Estate planning** — Guided wills, living trusts, powers of attorney and related family-planning documents, with attorney-assisted options.
- **Virtual Mail** — A privacy-preserving business address and digital mailroom; the 2026 version adds AI-assisted mail management.
- **Grant Finder** — A free AI-powered search tool matching small businesses with relevant grant opportunities.
- **Embedded legal services** — Partner technology that inserts LegalZoom intake and services into third-party platforms and customer journeys.

## Achievements

- Helped form 5.0 million businesses by December 31, 2025.
- Delivered 4.4 million estate-planning solutions by December 31, 2025.
- Reached 1.939 million subscription units at the end of 2025.
- Became publicly traded on Nasdaq under LZ in June 2021.
- Became the first publicly traded U.S. company to own and operate a law firm through LZ Legal Services.
- Generated $756.0 million of revenue and $147.9 million of free cash flow in 2025.
- Virtual Mail processed nearly 18 million pieces of mail, including 1.7 million checks representing $9.5 billion in deposits, by May 2026.
- The independent attorney network has delivered more than 900,000 consultations according to LegalZoom’s attorney-plan page.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Reported second-quarter revenue of $205.3 million, up 7% year over year, and subscription revenue of $133.4 million, up 11%. LegalZoom lowered full-year revenue guidance to $795 million-$805 million, citing a shift in customer discovery away from traditional search, and announced a 13% workforce reduction.
- **2026-07** — Published an estate-planning report drawing on more than 260,000 consumer plans and highlighting that more than half of U.S. adults still lack an estate plan.
- **2026-05** — Reintroduced Virtual Mail with an AI-powered digital mailroom designed to save time and protect business owners’ privacy.
- **2026-04** — Became the sole legal-services provider in the GoDaddy ecosystem and made LLC formation available within GoDaddy’s experience.
- **2026-04** — Registered a LegalZoom MCP agent through GoDaddy’s Agent Name Service for verifiable use inside AI assistants.
- **2026-03** — Launched Grant Finder, a free AI-powered tool that matches entrepreneurs to grant opportunities.
- **2025-10** — Launched an embedded legal-services flow for partners to incorporate LegalZoom intake into their own platforms.
- **2025-02** — Acquired Formation Nation, adding the Inc Authority and Nevada Corporate Headquarters brands and more service options across the price spectrum.

## Links

- Website: https://www.legalzoom.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/legalzoom/
- Twitter/X: https://www.twitter.com/LegalZoom/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/LegalZoom/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/legalzoom/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LegalZoom/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@legalzoom

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Last updated: 2026-08-13