This company, while affordable, is totally unreliable and the use of their services can be detrimental to your business. Do not trust them with anything time or accuracy sensitive, because their work is sloppy and not nearly prompt enough to deal with strict deadlines issued by federal or state agencies.
I am the director of a small non-profit theater company in Los Angeles. We trusted Legal Filings to handle our incorporation with the state and our 501c3 tax determination. We spent two months putting together our bid for tax exemption, including answering an exhausting questionare regarding our activities as a company and our plans for the future.
The people who were supposed to handle our case seemed to be fired or quit from Legal Filings every month, and it became very frustrating to be unable to speak to anyone with a direct knowledge of our case. Apart from that, when very critical documents came in from the IRS with a tigth deadline, we were not informed until it was TOO LATE TO RESPOND, causing our case to rollover and forcing us to reapply and pay the fee AGAIN (not easy for a charity). Due to their negligence of our work we have wasted our time and money, and have essentially no recourse other than to post a scathing review on a public site like Yelp.
It's unfortunate that this had to happen, not only because the application sent to the IRS should have been consistent and complete in the first place, but that they did not notify us of their error until it was too late to do anything about. In the meantime our company will no be able to fundraise as planned, and we have to wait to do this all over again, all of which will take another 9-12 months.
Legal Filings is a disorganized and haphazard collection of hack attorneys and receptionists who collect money from inexperienced people like us and do little else but draft and mail letters and forms. They will not help you directly with any questions regarding your case unless you nail them down and force them to answer (most of the time you will only talk to an unqualified secretary with a cursory knowledge of tax and business law.)
The unfortunate reality is that if you are a small business, especially non-profit, you should find a private lawyer who can help you file these forms in a more personal way, because companies like Legal Filings will forget about you until it is too late. read more