Nolo for lawyersReviews of nolo.com

WASTE OF TIME, MONEY - NOT A SINGLE VIABLE CASE LEAD. As a solo practitioner in personal injury, I was interested in leads to compete with other lawyers who had large internet marketing budgets. This WAS A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. Most of the inquiries were without merit. The majority were out of my practice area that I paid for (I was told motor vehicle collisions) -- I got many slip and falls (most without any allegations of negligence), MANY medical negligence, civil rights actions and mostly nonsensical inquiries. I did not get a single car accident inquiry. MN sends the potential client (PC) an email with your name/number, so often, they call you on the weekends, late at night or before you even have a chance to review the 5 words of case facts they fill out on the internet inquiry (usually says "case facts: hurt back," not the actual facts). You have no time to qualify them or ensure you are in the office to call them back. Requests for lead credits are arbitrarily denied when they are clearly out of scope of practice, bad phone numbers and even the TEST inquiry from MN itself. You will just spend your time rejecting cases and sending non-engagement letters AND YOU WILL GET NOTHING OUT OF IT. I canceled after month one and told them to just keep my money, but 3 months later, I am still getting non-sensical calls and trying to reach non-meritorious inquiries because I can't risk appearing as an attorney who won't return calls. SAVE YOUR MONEY -- THIS IS THE BIGGEST WASTE OF TIME I HAVE EVER HAD. YOU MAY AS WELL RUN A TV AD THAT SAYS "HEY, CALL ME IF YOU HAVE A LIFE COMPLAINT BECAUSE I HAVE 3 HOURS OF ATTORNEY TIME TO WASTE GIVING FREE ADVICE ABOUT HOW YOU CAN'T SUE FOR EVERYTHING"

Paid for a blank book, had to print all my own documents. Had to apply for my own EIN. Do not hire or give money to this company. They do not provide anything, they make you print your own documents and apply for your own EIN. They did not do what the description of what is listed. Called and would give me a $25 refund. Horrible company!!

People are duped into filling out a form and have no actual real interest 90% of the time in working with an attorney. Nolo attempts to sell this as a lead and charge the lawyers a huge fee. Total garbage.

If there were -5 scores you'd be the one to get it. You messed with an elderly woman , and spammed into a well known bankruptcy attorney. Heads up !

Not reliable at all.

I used Nolo before for advertising for Bankruptcy, we lost money TWICE. The way it works is NOLO shares leads with other attorneys so it is first come first serve, so many times before you even call a lead, another attorney has called and set up an appointment. The sales person we signed up with made all these promises that NOLO has changed, the representative that we worked with does not work there anymore, the salesperson said there are all these leads and they don't have enough attorneys to fill them, this is the line I was given. Why I fell prey to NOLO again, I am still baffled about it. Why NOT to Hire Nolo 1. Most of the leads are poor quality, either they are spam, picking your brain, have no intentions on hiring an attorney, want to do it themselves, make appointments and never show up, or just have no money to afford an attorney. 2. You are one of a few attorneys who receives the lead 3. When you receive spam leads, you have to be quick about getting credits, it is another accounting task and takes more time away from you generating business. 4. Read your contract NO REFUNDS, they will hold you to the contract no matter how dissatisfied you are. 5. Waste of valuable time, time calling bad leads, time emailing bad leads, time setting up appointments for bad leads and time wasted for no shows. I looked up all the leads we received with other attorneys to see if the leads did retain a Bankruptcy Attorney and filed Bankruptcy and most did not that clearly in my opinion is a good indicator that they are mostly bad leads. With NOLO think about it, you spent countless hours chasing down leads, some are completely bogus, most are just calling to pick your brain, very few hire you, just think of how much time you have wasted when you could put your time generating leads that are NOT SHARED. There will be no third time for me, shame on me for even considering them a second time.

This is the first time I contacted Nolo by phone, although I've used their services before. Besides the absolutely best business services available to small businesses; the technical support is also the best. The ownership appears to take great care of the staff, because technical support is very helpful and I never felt like they were talking down to me. In fact, I could feel the smile through the voice. I believe the name of my technical support person is Nate. My hat is off to you Sir Nate! For your information, my call was regarding the "Create your own Employee Handbook". Thank you folks for your excellence.

In less than a week I was able to officially have my company incorporated as a Domestic Limited Liability Company. And for those who don't have a Registering Agent they are associated with an awesome company Corporation Service Company (I know the name sounds suspect but they've been doing this for literally over a century (since 1899). They even fill out the SS4 form (Application for Employer Identification Number) so you can mail it, but I'm likely going to do it online next week on the irs.gov site. It is still good to have though in case the government shut downs or less dramatically their site just isn't working. Ok lastly the 3 things that are the MOST helpful about this site (and I know because I compared Trademarkia and LegalZoom by physically filling out and starting the process) are (1) Each question was accompanied by detail information about what you were answering and suggestions to help you get to the next question with ease (2) the price was UNDER $400 for their premium package (this of course could change in the future so don't hold them to this forever). (3) I received a professional gold engraved business ledger/binder complete with company stamp that uses the same device as a notary public uses and has EXTENSIVE details about the next steps as well as the ongoing steps needed to keep your LLC official. So yeah I was HIGHLY impressed. And I am greatly satisfied. Thank you!