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105 Ky. L.J. 563 (2016-2017)
LegalZoom and Online Legal Service Providers: Is the Development and Sale of Interactive Questionnaires That Generate Legal Documents the Unauthorized Practice of Law

handle is hein.journals/kentlj105 and id is 595 raw text is: NOTES LegalZoom and Online Legal Service Providers: Is the Development and Sale of Interactive Questionnaires that Generate Legal Documents the Unauthorized Practice of Law? Emily McClure TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................563 INTRODUCTION .......................................... .......564 I. ARGUMENT &BACKGROUND ........................................565 A. What is Unauthorized Practice? ....................................-565 B. What Services Does LegaLZoomProvide? ......... ............ 568 C. What About Other Online Legal Service Providers?..................... 571 II. ANALysIS-How HAVE OTHER STATES RULED?.........................573 A. South Carolina: LegalZoom Does Not Engage in the Unauthorized Practice ofLaw................................573 B. Missouri: LegalZoom is Engaged in the Unauthorized Practice ofLaw............... .........575 C Ohio: Declined to Rule on LegalZoom ..... .................... 576 D. North Carolina: Declined to Rule on LegaLZoom .........................577 E. Other Notable Advisory Opinions: Pennsylvania and Connecticut..................................... 578 III. ANALYSIS-How SHOULD KENTUCKY RULE? ................................. 579 IV. OFFERED SOLUTIONS ..................................581 A. Option One: Bar LegalZoom From Kentucky..............................581 B. Option Two: AllowLegalZoom to Continue Operations.............582 C. Option Three: A Compromise.. ............................... 584 CONCLUSION .................................................. ............585 563 1J.D. Candidate, 2017, University of Kentucky College of Law. Thank you to Aj. Singleton and Thomas Rutledge of Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC; Collin Schueler of the United States Department of Justice; and Professor Richard Underwood of the University of Kentucky College of Law for their help with this Note.

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