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Rocket Lawyer

101 2nd Street, 4th Floor Suite 400, San Francisco, California, 94105-1611, United States

Overview

Rocket Lawyer provides cloud-based legal services through its Rocket Legal Cloud platform, offering digital legal documents, RocketSign digital signatures, on-demand attorney advice, and online incorporations. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, the company serves enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, and millions of individuals and families across North America, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. The company reports having provided over 25 million people and organizations with access to its services. Rocket Lawyer says its offerings are built on patented technology and aim to democratize access to justice. The pandemic amplified demand for its always-on, 100% digital platform, which the company plans to scale. Rocket Lawyer intends to work with its financing partner to leverage operational expertise and expand its reach. Rocket Lawyer is an online legal services platform that provides legal documents to consumers and small businesses and helps users find and reach lawyers. The company has signaled expansion beyond document offerings, recently acquiring legal Q&A site LawPivot. Founder Charley Moore said the company is growing revenue by $20 million each year. Rocket Lawyer has been involved in litigation with rival LegalZoom, which sued the company last year; Rocket Lawyer counter‑sued and some charges were dropped. The company previously raised capital from prominent investors and may use new funding for further expansion or acquisitions, though the specific use of the latest funds was not disclosed. Prior disclosed investors include August Capital, Google Ventures and Investor Growth Capital. Rocket Lawyer operates a do-it-yourself legal platform supporting common small business and consumer needs such as wills, property titles and business contracts, and offers paid legal advice from local attorneys. The company says it aims to make legal services accessible and affordable for all. It reported rapid audience growth, doubling visitor numbers between September 2010 and September 2011 and serving more than 15 million people and several thousand businesses each year. Financially, Rocket Lawyer has raised multiple rounds and, after the most recent filing, has roughly $40 million in total funding. The business is San Francisco–based and was founded in August 2008. The company competes with LegalZoom and USLegalForms in the online legal services market. Rocket Lawyer, founded by lawyer Charles Moore, provides online legal documents and paid legal-advice services to consumers and small businesses. The platform lets users create customized documents that can be electronically signed, shared instantly, or downloaded, and it offers the documents for free. Many users pay for legal advice and access to documents, ranging from $20 for a single consultation to $200–$300 per year for on-call legal service; the company currently has thousands of annual subscribers. Monthly activity includes more than 20,000 Last Wills and 40,000 Business Contracts created on the site. Moore projects 20 million people will have used Rocket Lawyer by year-end, and site visitors have grown over 100% year-over-year. Revenue has been growing by $10 million each year, though the company declined to disclose whether it is profitable; the new funds will be used to build the brand and its patent-pending online legal solutions. Rocket Lawyer is an online legal service platform based in San Francisco that serves consumers, small businesses and lawyers. The platform allows users to create, edit, and share legal documents and to access services from lawyers nationwide. The company raised $7M in an equity financing round led by Investor Growth Capital. The new funds will be used to improve its platform, invest in technology and expand its workforce. In conjunction with the funding, Philip Dur of Investor Growth Capital has taken a seat on the company’s board. He joins Founder and Chairman Charley Moore and President and CEO Dan Nye on the board.

Total raised
$276M
Funding rounds
6
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Apr 2021

Industries

  • Law Enforcement
  • Legal
  • Legal Tech
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Apr 2021

    $223M

  2. Equity

    May 2013

    $15M

  3. Series D

    Jan 2012

    $11M

  4. Equity

    Aug 2011

    $19M

  5. Equity

    Jun 2010

    $7M

Team

  • Charley Moore

    Founder & CEO

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  • Genevieve Owyang

    VP, Customer Acquisition and Growth Marketing

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  • Courtney O'Connell

    Chief Design Officer

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  • Mark Edwards

    Chief Product Officer

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