The LAS Systems charge on your statement is a $49 monthly subscription fee from LegalZoom for its Business Attorney Plan, previously branded as Legal Advisory Services. It almost always starts as a 30-day free trial bundled into a premium LLC or corporation formation package at checkout. When the trial ends, the plan auto-renews every month until you cancel. Most people don’t realize they signed up for it, because the billing descriptor doesn’t spell out “Legal Advisory Services” and the charge is separate from whatever you paid to form your business.
On your statement the line typically reads “LegalZoom LAS Systems,” “LZ LAS,” or a similar abbreviation, which is why it looks unfamiliar even to people who recognize their original LegalZoom purchase.
How It Ended Up on Your Account
LegalZoom bundles the Business Attorney Plan into its higher-tier LLC and corporation formation packages as a 30-day free trial. Selecting the premium formation package at checkout includes the advisory subscription, and the trial converts to a paid monthly subscription automatically once the 30 days expire. Monthly subscriptions renew each month without any reminder notice.1LegalZoom. Supplemental Terms of Service for Subscriptions and Third-Party Services
The practical effect: you form an LLC, pay a few hundred dollars, and assume the transaction is done. The trial runs quietly, and by the time you notice $49 on a statement, two or three monthly charges may already have posted.
One quick boundary. LegalZoom’s registered agent service is a separate annual subscription. If you see more than one recurring LegalZoom charge, one is likely the advisory plan and the other is the registered agent fee. Canceling one does not cancel the other.
How to Cancel the Subscription
You can cancel online in a couple of minutes. Log in to your LegalZoom account, click your profile icon in the top-right corner, and go to Subscriptions. Find the attorney plan or advisory subscription, click the three-dot menu on the right side of that row, and select Cancel subscription. Confirm in the window that follows. No phone call required.
If you’d rather cancel by phone, call LegalZoom customer support at (800) 773-0888.2LegalZoom. LegalZoom Terms of Service Speaking with an agent is useful if you also want to ask about a refund or confirm which other subscriptions are on your account. Either way, save the confirmation email or a screenshot in case another charge still posts.
Cancel before your next renewal date to avoid another billing cycle. LegalZoom’s terms don’t guarantee reminder emails for monthly subscriptions, so check your account for the exact renewal date rather than waiting for a notice that may not come.1LegalZoom. Supplemental Terms of Service for Subscriptions and Third-Party Services
Can You Get a Refund?
LegalZoom will refund the subscription if you request it within 30 days of the initial purchase. For the advisory plan specifically, you qualify for a refund inside that 30-day window unless you’ve already completed an attorney consultation.3LegalZoom. LZ Guarantee Talk to a plan attorney even once during that first month and the refund is off the table.
After 30 days, LegalZoom does not issue refunds, whether or not you ever used the service. If you’ve been billed for six months without noticing, you can cancel going forward, but you shouldn’t expect to recover past charges through LegalZoom. For those, your option is a dispute with your bank or card issuer.
Disputing Past Charges With Your Bank or Card Issuer
If the charge posted to a credit card, the Fair Credit Billing Act gives you 60 days from the date your statement was sent to notify your card issuer of a billing error in writing. Your notice has to include your name, account number, the amount in question, and why you believe it’s an error.4Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 15 USC 1666 – Correction of Billing Errors Most issuers let you start the process online or by phone, but the legal clock runs on written notice sent to the address the issuer designates for billing disputes.
If the charge came out of your bank account as an ACH debit, federal rules on unauthorized electronic transfers set a tiered liability structure. Reporting within two business days of discovering the transfer caps your liability at $50. Reporting after that but within 60 days of your statement raises the cap to $500. After 60 days, you can be on the hook for the full amount of any transfers that occur past the deadline.5Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Liability of Consumer for Unauthorized Transfers
One wrinkle matters a lot here. Charges you unknowingly authorized through a trial-to-paid conversion are harder to dispute than charges you never agreed to at all. If you clicked through LegalZoom’s checkout and the terms disclosed the trial, your bank may treat the follow-on charges as authorized even though you didn’t realize what you were signing up for. The dispute isn’t hopeless, but the argument shifts from fraud to billing error or non-receipt of service, which is a harder case. Cancel the subscription first so no new charges post, then open the dispute.