Breaking the law: Entrepreneurial attorney Kalpesh Patel seeks to disrupt

St. Petersburg lawyer Kalpesh Patel finds it hard to believe entrepreneurs and small business owners increasingly turn to sites like LegalZoom.com and RocketLawyer.com for legal services. But he understands why.

Entrepreneurs “don’t want to spend that much money on legal counsel, but they want to get the documents right,” he says. “But what happens a lot of times is that they don’t understand the transaction, and they need counseling about how to draft the documents. But [those sites] have millions of customers, so they must be doing something right. It’s not like it’s a bad service. It’s a great service if you know what you’re doing.”