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SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-23-002871 to LEGALZOOM.COM, INC. (LZ) (CIK 0001286139) (LZ)

LEGALZOOM.COM, INC. (LZ) (CIK 0001286139)
Date: March 22, 2023 · CIK: 0001286139 · Accession: 0000000000-23-002871

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File numbers found in text: 001-35618

Referenced dates: May 17, 2021

Date
March 22, 2023
Author
Office of Technology
Form
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Company
LEGALZOOM.COM, INC. (LZ) (CIK 0001286139)

Letter

United States securities and exchange commission logo March 22, 2023 Noel Watson Chief Financial Officer Legalzoom.com, Inc. 101 N. Brand Boulevard 11th Floor Glendale, CA 91203 Re:Legalzoom.com, Inc. Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 File No. 001-35618 Dear Noel Watson: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Key Business Metrics, page 33 1.We note that you aim to continue to grow subscription units, in part, by improving retention rates. We also note your risk factor disclosure on page 8, which highlights the importance of converting customers to subscriptions, retaining existing customers and renewing subscriptions to maintaining and improving your operating results. In your response to prior comment 9 from your May 18, 2021 letter, you indicated that management believed annual retention rate is the most relevant metric for investors to assess the company's effectiveness in retaining its subscription base. However, we note that you have removed the discussion of annual retention rate from your filing. Please explain why you removed this measure. Tell us what retention, expansion or conversion measure(s) you currently use to evaluate your subscription business and revise to include a quantified discussion of such measure(s). Refer to SEC Release No. 33-10751.

FirstName LastNameNoel Watson Comapany NameLegalzoom.com, Inc. March 22, 2023 Page 2 FirstName LastName Noel Watson Legalzoom.com, Inc. March 22, 2023 Page 2 Results of Operations, page 38 2.We note that you provide the impact of volume (i.e. average number of subscription units and number of transactions) and price (i.e. ARPU and average order value) on your subscription and transaction revenue. You also qualitatively discuss various factors that impacted the volume and price metrics for each revenue stream, a portion of which relates to the Earth Class Mail acquisition in fiscal 2021. Please revise to also include a quantified discussion of the various factors, including any offsetting factors, that impacted your revenue and/or the supporting metrics disclosed. Refer to Item 303(b) of Regulation S-K. Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements Note 14. Commitments and Contingencies, page 82 3.Please revise to disclose that an accrual has not been recorded related to the April 2020 legal proceeding because the likelihood of loss is not both probable and reasonably estimable. Additionally, given there is at least a reasonable possibility of loss, revise to disclose either an estimate of the reasonably possible loss or range of loss, or include a statement that such an estimate cannot be made. We refer you to your responses to prior comments 16 and 10 from your letters dated May 17, 2021 and June 4, 2021, respectively, as well as the guidance ASC 450-20-25-2 and 450-20-50-3 and 50-4. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. You may contact Brittany Ebbertt, Senior Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3572 or Kathleen Collins, Accounting Branch Chief, at 202-551-3499 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Technology

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United States securities and exchange commission logo
March 22, 2023
Noel Watson
Chief Financial Officer
Legalzoom.com, Inc.
101 N. Brand Boulevard
11th Floor
Glendale, CA 91203
Re:Legalzoom.com, Inc.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022
File No. 001-35618
Dear Noel Watson:
            We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related
disclosures and have the following comments.  In some of our comments, we may ask you to
provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.
            Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond.  If you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response.
            After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Key Business Metrics, page 33
1.We note that you aim to continue to grow subscription units, in part, by improving
retention rates.  We also note your risk factor disclosure on page 8, which highlights the
importance of converting customers to subscriptions, retaining existing customers and
renewing subscriptions to maintaining and improving your operating results.  In your
response to prior comment 9 from your May 18, 2021 letter, you indicated that
management believed annual retention rate is the most relevant metric for investors to
assess the company's effectiveness in retaining its subscription base.  However, we note
that you have removed the discussion of annual retention rate from your filing.  Please
explain why you removed this measure.  Tell us what retention, expansion or conversion
measure(s) you currently use to evaluate your subscription business and revise to include a
quantified discussion of such measure(s).  Refer to SEC Release No. 33-10751.

 FirstName LastNameNoel Watson
 Comapany NameLegalzoom.com, Inc.
 March 22, 2023 Page 2
 FirstName LastName
Noel Watson
Legalzoom.com, Inc.
March 22, 2023
Page 2
Results of Operations, page 38
2.We note that you provide the impact of volume (i.e. average number of subscription units
and number of transactions) and price (i.e. ARPU and average order value) on your
subscription and transaction revenue.  You also qualitatively discuss various factors that
impacted the volume and price metrics for each revenue stream, a portion of which relates
to the Earth Class Mail acquisition in fiscal 2021.  Please revise to also include a
quantified discussion of the various factors, including any offsetting factors, that
impacted your revenue and/or the supporting metrics disclosed.  Refer to Item 303(b) of
Regulation S-K.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 14. Commitments and Contingencies, page 82
3.Please revise to disclose that an accrual has not been recorded related to the April 2020
legal proceeding because the likelihood of loss is not both probable and reasonably
estimable.  Additionally, given there is at least a reasonable possibility of loss, revise to
disclose either an estimate of the reasonably possible loss or range of loss, or include a
statement that such an estimate cannot be made.  We refer you to your responses to prior
comments 16 and 10 from your letters dated May 17, 2021 and June 4, 2021, respectively,
as well as the guidance ASC 450-20-25-2 and 450-20-50-3 and 50-4.
            In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.
            You may contact Brittany Ebbertt, Senior Staff Accountant, at 202-551-3572 or Kathleen
Collins, Accounting Branch Chief, at 202-551-3499 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Technology