I retained L4SB to establish an anonymous corporation for my business. L4SB laughably boasts that it uses "proprietary software" to establish legal documents for your business.
I retained this company to create and file the documents. During the process, their proprietary software glitched -- and the main attorney, Larry Donahue -- or one of his assistants -- entered data.
Even though they had my name, address, and business address -- they identified me in documents as a series of numbers and letters -- and an address of an apartment compex in a state in which I never lived and had no connection to.
Among the recommendations given by this "firm," is that you must set up your bank account right away -- as they will have no way of knowing whether you didn't sign the corporation over to a different person before you opened the account.
They competently set up the corporation in my state -- but then provided useless documention that my bank rejected on grounds of fraud -- as I am not a string of numbers and have no connection to Chicago. Yes this strawperson was represented as the owner of this corporation.
I notified Larry who said that the documentation was fine and that the bank should accept it. In fact, once he completed his documents - -through his proprietary software -- he sent me a generic form letter representing and confirming that I would be able to use the documents to set up a business bank account.
After the bank rejected the documents, I notified the firm, told them the reasons why the paperwork was rejected -- and the firm dug in its heels and said the paperwork was fine. I then notified the bank that per counsel (which I paid for), the documents were sufficient to set up a bank.
The bank flagged their paperwork as attempted fraud -- as I have no connection to the state identified as my residence and my name was cloaked as a series of numbers and letter that was not me.
As a result of this, I was unable to set up a business bank account -- and therefore could not launch my business -- and this, after paying $500 year for a UPS mail box to set up a "physical location" for the business. I also had to pay local registration fees, thousands to web site creators to establish a web site, etc. for a business that could no launch as I could not establish a business account based upon the paperwork. This is just the beginning of my losses.
Not only that but the bank where I had been a client in good standing for over a decade -- canceled my personal account. L4SB then billed be not once but TWICE as renewal time -- even though they were instructed from the outset not to retain my credit cards on file or automatically bill me ever.
As I moved to dissolve this business, the State Corporation Commission advised me that I would have to pay a $75 penalty to dissolve it.
The incompetence of L4SB was bad enough. It's basically a document mill where they overcharge for generic services and generate revenue by having you fill out a template -- with obvious no review of documents from the attorney or paralegal for quality control -- even when you point errors out to them they insist none are made.
Adding to this was the absolute arrogance, condescension, lack of accountability, and insufferable entitlement of this firm. Having sustained significant losses from their so-called proprietary software, I contacted the firm whereupon a female "customer service rep" picked the phone. I explained the situation and requested, simply, a refund for their service and reimbursement for corporation termination fee.
The woman refused to even consider reimbursement. They got the money. They performed the service -- albeit incompetently. They weren't giving it back. That there were errors in the documents was not their fault, based upon their proprietary software. That the software glitched and created errors was not their problem.
The woman talked over me, was rude, condescending, and insulting.
As I asked her to please listen to me as I explained my concerns to her, she bizarrely stated, "what is this really about? You seem upset! Did something happen to you today? Obviously you're not calling about a legal issue are you. You just had a bad day."
Totally clueless Millennial brat.
I reported the matter to the attorney disciplinary commitee -- and they supported Donahue -- even though he entered the wrong name/address for my business -- one entirely out of state, one with no connection to me and which resulted in significant losses for me -- and which had been brought to their attention at the time only to have them double down and dismiss the bank's concerns.
I am not an attorney. I don't know what the paperwork should look like. It's an anonymous corporation afterall. I relied upon them. They affirmed the paperwork was fine and correct as is. It wasn't.
I think i paid them a few hundred dollars. They were not even willing to refund this -- but went on to lodge ad hominen attacks on me for requesting it.
The law profession is very corrupt these days. It serves the Temple Bar in London which has corrupted the nation's legal profession and ABA to a significant degree. That the disciplinary committee saw no reason to sanction Donahue or secure a refund for me reflects corruption at the state level, in my opinion -- and accounts for Donahue's arrogance and lack of accountability. He has friends in high places. He may even have friends on the Board to whom he kicks business. Who knows.
That the disciplinary saw no issue with the fact that they gave me paperwork I could not sue -- and bad legal advice -- blaming his proprietary software -- is beyond ridiculous.
Buyer beware.
Just hire a proper business attorney, not some document mill attorney running an online scam operation.
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I retained L4SB to establish an anonymous corporation for my business. L4SB laughably boasts that it uses "proprietary software" to establish legal documents for your business.
I retained this company to create and file the documents. During the process, their proprietary software glitched -- and the main attorney, Larry Donahue -- or one of his assistants -- entered data.
Even though they had my name, address, and business address -- they identified me in documents as a series of numbers and letters -- and an address of an apartment compex in a state in which I never lived and had no connection to.
Among the recommendations given by this "firm," is that you must set up your bank account right away -- as they will have no way of knowing whether you didn't sign the corporation over to a different person before you opened the account.
They competently set up the corporation in my state -- but then provided useless documention that my bank rejected on grounds of fraud -- as I am not a string of numbers and have no connection to Chicago. Yes this strawperson was represented as the owner of this corporation.
I notified Larry who said that the documentation was fine and that the bank should accept it. In fact, once he completed his documents - -through his proprietary software -- he sent me a generic form letter representing and confirming that I would be able to use the documents to set up a business bank account.
After the bank rejected the documents, I notified the firm, told them the reasons why the paperwork was rejected -- and the firm dug in its heels and said the paperwork was fine. I then notified the bank that per counsel (which I paid for), the documents were sufficient to set up a bank.
The bank flagged their paperwork as attempted fraud -- as I have no connection to the state identified as my residence and my name was cloaked as a series of numbers and letter that was not me.
As a result of this, I was unable to set up a business bank account -- and therefore could not launch my business -- and this, after paying $500 year for a UPS mail box to set up a "physical location" for the business. I also had to pay local registration fees, thousands to web site creators to establish a web site, etc. for a business that could no launch as I could not establish a business account based upon the paperwork. This is just the beginning of my losses.
Not only that but the bank where I had been a client in good standing for over a decade -- canceled my personal account. L4SB then billed be not once but TWICE as renewal time -- even though they were instructed from the outset not to retain my credit cards on file or automatically bill me ever.
As I moved to dissolve this business, the State Corporation Commission advised me that I would have to pay a $75 penalty to dissolve it.
The incompetence of L4SB was bad enough. It's basically a document mill where they overcharge for generic services and generate revenue by having you fill out a template -- with obvious no review of documents from the attorney or paralegal for quality control -- even when you point errors out to them they insist none are made.
Adding to this was the absolute arrogance, condescension, lack of accountability, and insufferable entitlement of this firm. Having sustained significant losses from their so-called proprietary software, I contacted the firm whereupon a female "customer service rep" picked the phone. I explained the situation and requested, simply, a refund for their service and reimbursement for corporation termination fee.
The woman refused to even consider reimbursement. They got the money. They performed the service -- albeit incompetently. They weren't giving it back. That there were errors in the documents was not their fault, based upon their proprietary software. That the software glitched and created errors was not their problem.
The woman talked over me, was rude, condescending, and insulting.
As I asked her to please listen to me as I explained my concerns to her, she bizarrely stated, "what is this really about? You seem upset! Did something happen to you today? Obviously you're not calling about a legal issue are you. You just had a bad day."
Totally clueless Millennial brat.
I reported the matter to the attorney disciplinary commitee -- and they supported Donahue -- even though he entered the wrong name/address for my business -- one entirely out of state, one with no connection to me and which resulted in significant losses for me -- and which had been brought to their attention at the time only to have them double down and dismiss the bank's concerns.
I am not an attorney. I don't know what the paperwork should look like. It's an anonymous corporation afterall. I relied upon them. They affirmed the paperwork was fine and correct as is. It wasn't.
I think i paid them a few hundred dollars. They were not even willing to refund this -- but went on to lodge ad hominen attacks on me for requesting it.
The law profession is very corrupt these days. It serves the Temple Bar in London which has corrupted the nation's legal profession and ABA to a significant degree. That the disciplinary committee saw no reason to sanction Donahue or secure a refund for me reflects corruption at the state level, in my opinion -- and accounts for Donahue's arrogance and lack of accountability. He has friends in high places. He may even have friends on the Board to whom he kicks business. Who knows.
That the disciplinary saw no issue with the fact that they gave me paperwork I could not sue -- and bad legal advice -- blaming his proprietary software -- is beyond ridiculous.
Buyer beware.
Just hire a proper business attorney, not some document mill attorney running an online scam operation.