The North Carolina Board of CPA Examiners is facing a lawsuit that has shades of the litigation that pitted LegalZoom.com against the North Carolina State Bar and resulted in groundbreaking legislation earlier this year. Belinda Johnson, a certified public accountant ...

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Federal regulators sent a letter to North Carolina lawmakers touting the benefits of interactive legal software days before the General Assembly unanimously passed a bill that excludes websites such as LegalZoom.com from the statutory definition of the practice of law. ...

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A conference committee has proposed changes to the so-called LegalZoom bill that would include, for the first time, language addressing the software driving dramatic changes in the delivery of legal services. The proposed substitute of House Bill 436 has not ...

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LegalZoom’s settlement with the North Carolina State Bar might not be a harbinger of the demise of traditional legal services, but at the very least it’s showing lawyers throughout the state and country where the hands are on the clock. ...

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The protracted tug-of-war between the North Carolina State Bar and LegalZoom is finally over. James Gale, chief judge of the state’s Business Court, has signed off on an Oct. 22 consent judgment that gives LegalZoom what it has sought since ...

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The North Carolina State Bar has brought a big gun to its standoff with LegalZoom.com and an unrelated company, Capital Associated Industries. Alan Duncan, the immediate past president of the North Carolina Bar Association, began representing the state bar July ...

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The LegalZoom.com customers who joined in a now-defunct class-action lawsuit against the self-help legal website are going to have to arbitrate their remaining unauthorized practice of law claims.

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The increasingly contentious relationship between LegalZoom.com and the North Carolina State Bar is taking on shades of the doomed marriage of Oliver and Barbara Rose in the 1989 dark comedy “The War of the Roses.”

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LegalZoom.com has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the North Carolina State Bar seeking more than $10.5 million in damages. The self-help legal services company alleges in its complaint that the bar violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by refusing to ...

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North Carolina Business Court Chief Judge James Gale has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against LegalZoom.com.

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