Rocket Lawyer Review
Rocket Lawyer
Summary
Making the law simple, affordable and accessible to all: This is the goal of Rocket Lawyer, the online legal services specialist providing advice and online legal documents in the U.S. since 2008. The following is our opinion on Rocket Lawyer.
Advantages
- Intuitive legal document builder
- Free trial
- Reliable and affordable documents
- Free legal advice
Disadvantages
- You must manage the rest of the business creation process once the documents are completed
Rocket Lawyer
Rocket Lawyer
Summary
Making the law simple, affordable and accessible to all: This is the goal of Rocket Lawyer, the online legal services specialist providing advice and online legal documents in the U.S. since 2008. The following is our opinion on Rocket Lawyer.
Advantages
- Intuitive legal document builder
- Free trial
- Reliable and affordable documents
- Free legal advice
Disadvantages
- You must manage the rest of the business creation process once the documents are completed
Summary of Rocket Lawyer review
Don’t have time to read it all? Here is a summary of our opinion on Rocket Lawyer, to help you understand whether Rocket Lawyer is a good choice for you or not!
Rocket Lawyer enables start-ups and small businesses to handle all of their legal procedures online in a timely and affordable manner.
If you are looking to create a company or association, create documents (contracts, leases, form an LLC, etc.) or if you require legal advice and help from attorneys over a dispute or closing a company, this can all be achieved by Rocket Lawyer.
In summary, Rocket Lawyer makes it quick and easy to access attorneys to help with your legal requirements and also to DIY the creation of legal documents for your business through the Rocket Lawyer dashboard where you can quickly edit a form, insert your details and download the document you need.
For a full in-depth review, the following is our opinion of Rocket Lawyer in detail.
About Rocket Lawyer
Rocket Lawyer is a company created in 2008 in California by Charley Moore, an American entrepreneur, with the aim of helping individuals, associations and VSEs-SMEs to “simply access affordable legal services”, thanks to new technologies.
In the U.S, Rocket Lawyer service has been present since 2008 and provides companies and individuals with a range of services including:
Rocket Lawyer Pricing
Prior to Rocket Lawyer’s launch, company formation and producing the necessary documents required to manage the business was a long, tedious and expensive process.
Rocket Lawyer was the company that made waves in this area by using technology to streamline document editing procedures and produce solid legal papers at pricing that are both cheap and transparent.
In general, Rocket Lawyer runs two different pricing models. Customers have the option of purchasing a single doc for the price of $39.99 or subscribing to a premium membership charged every 30 days that gives them access to an infinite number of papers for the same price every month.
| Premium Member | Non member | |
| Pricing | $39.99 per month | Per document/query |
| Legal doc creation | Yes | $39.99/doc |
| Attorney Services | ||
| Lawyer contract/dispute review | Yes | $9.99/document |
| Lawyer Q & A | Yes | $49.99/question |
| Lawyer 30 min: New matters | Yes | $59.99/question |
| On Call® attorney discount | Up to 40% off | n/a |
| Help for businesses | ||
| Incorporation filing | 25% off (excl. fees) | $99.99 (excl. fees) |
| Reg. Agent service | 25% off | $149.99 |
Users can also try Rocket Lawyer for free for 7 days and avail of:
- Generate as many customizable legal documents as you require
- Dispute protection on your contracts with Rocket Lawyer Document Defense
- Unlimited electronic signatures with RocketSign
- 30-minute conversation with an attorney over the phone to discuss any new concern.
- Ask a lawyer legal questions or have them review your document
- Incorporation for free and hire a lawyer with up to 40% off
Who should use Rocket Lawyer?
Rocket Lawyer is aimed at individual entrepreneurs, startups and SMB’s. Larger firms or companies with very specific needs may have internal teams dedicated to managing these matters or already have established connections with specialized lawyers.
In saying that, the ease of use and reliability of Rocket Lawyer (for document creation and lawyer consultations) lead us to believe that certain lawyers and HR professionals in large firms also use Rocket Lawyer to save time.
Individuals can also use Rocket Lawyer to generate many documents, such as tenants for rental contracts, rent receipts, landlords for late rental payment notices and professionals for late payment of goods and services.
Testing the creation of a document on Rocket Lawyer
To test the service offered by Rocket Lawyer, we decided to take advantage of the 7-day free trial by registering on the official website.
The registration process was short, and took us less than one minute to access the platform. We then continued with the drafting of a Limited Liability Company (LLC agreement).
The creation of the document was easy with the user required to insert details using:
- Yes and No buttons
- Drop-down option selections
- A ‘Skip’ button for steps that may not be relevant to your business
- Text boxes to insert manual address information
A percentage (%) progress bar at the top of the page detailed our progress towards document completion. We were able to create an LLC company agreement in less than five minutes.
For the drafting of an LLC agreement, the steps were as follows:
- LLC name
- The State where you will file your LLC paperwork
- Business owners address
- Date in which the Operating Agreement should take effect
- Company purpose (company description of product/services)
- Member name(s)
- Type of contribution
- Amount of money each member is contributing to the LLC
- Name and address of the LLC’s registered agent
- LLC timespan: Operate indefinitely or with an expiration date
- New members voting powers
- Frequency of profit distribution
- LLC be managed by Members or Managers
- Will the LLC appoint officers, such as a President, Secretary or Treasurer?
- When will the LLC’s fiscal year end?
- Is the LLC requesting corporate tax treatment from the IRS?
- What vote will be required to dissolve the LLC?
Good to know: The document is saved on the go, allowing users to come back at a later time to finish the setup.
We’ve tested multiple different forms for starting businesses online and Rocket Lawyer offers a very powerful experience including:
- An intuitive document builder
- Quick setup (less than 5 minutes)
- Free trial
- Simple forms dedicated to your requirement (LLC Operating Agreements, NDA’s, Service Contracts and more).
Note that in addition to renaming, printing, and converting the document to Word or PDF format, you also have the ability to add an electronic signature to the document you are working on.
If you do not cancel your membership prior to the ending of your trial period, you will be enrolled in Rocket Lawyer’s monthly subscription service at the conclusion of the trial period (7 days).
Canceling your subscription is very easy to do from your online account (we entered a credit card number to test the process). You can also retain access to any documents you created prior to your account cancellation.
Services offered by Rocket Lawyer
Here we take a look at the services offered by Rocket Lawyer to entrepreneurs and startups.
Rocket Lawyer supports firms with:
- Starting your LLC
- Amending the Articles of Organization
- Filing LLC annual reports
- Transferring business ownership
- Formation advice including LLC vs S-Corp
- Selling shares in your LLC
- State requirements for starting a firm
- Closing your company
Create legal documents
Rocket Lawyer offers more than 300 different types of documents, many of which are aimed at entrepreneurs, startups and professionals. Among the main documents include:
- LLC Operating Agreements
- Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Independent Contractor Agreements
- Business Contracts
- Lease Agreements
- Sample Buy-Sell Agreement Template
- Buy-Sell Agreements
- Intent to Purchase Real Estate
These documents are very reliable and accompanied by detailed guides allowing you to complete the document and stay up to date with the latest legal developments, a key strength of Rocket Lawyer.
Lastly, we appreciated Rocket Lawyer also offering the latest documents related to world affairs including forms related to Covid and returning to work, evidence that Rocket Lawyer knows how to adapt to current events and the needs of its clients.
Legal advice
The second part of the legal services offered by Rocket Lawyer concerns legal advice. From your dashboard or on the homepage, you can click ‘Ask a lawyer’ a question for free.
If you have a premium membership Rocket Lawyer account, you can get a free 30-minute consultation with a lawyer over the phone, which allows you to get an expert first opinion on your legal queries.
If you do need a more in-depth consultation, you can take advantage of discounts on the rates of lawyers (Up to 40% off their hourly rates).
Customer support
Rocket Lawyer‘s customer support is available from 9AM (Eastern) to 9PM, meaning if you live over on the Pacific coast, you can still call Rocket Lawyer until 6PM Pacific time.
Customer service agents are very efficient in solving caller’s issues with short wait times.
Users can expect a turnaround time of one business day when using the Ask a Lawyer service.
Rocket Lawyer: Customer reviews
When writing this review, Rocket Lawyer had more than 4,948 reviews on Trustpilot, for an average rating of 4.7/5.
Customers tend to be very satisfied with the service and report points similar to those of our test: Ease of use and reliable documents.
Rocket Lawyer: Overall verdict
In our opinion, Rocket Lawyer presents itself as a superb option for entrepreneurs, small businesses and professionals who require legal advice and legal documents drafted without spending large sums of money.
The signup to their service is easy, the user interface is excellent and offers so many free templates that are easy to edit per your needs and download reliable documents in a Word, Excel or PDF format.
Rocket Lawyer certainly fulfils its founders objective, to provide an affordable way for companies to access legal advice and documentation, with the Gottagrow team giving Rocket Lawyer a resounding two thumbs up.
