RocketLawyer.com brings Electronic Signatures to Everyday Legal Contracts

RocketLawyer.com, the leading developer of retail and online legal document software, today announced the availability of E-Signature support for everyday legal contracts like employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, and hundreds of other common business legal forms. Consumers and business professionals can now go paperless as they complete their everyday legal documents, protecting the environment, while saving time and money.

Charley Moore, an Attorney and Founder of RocketLawyer.com, writes, in his Rocket Lawyer web log (http://charleymoore.rocketlawyer.com):

"By now, many of us have clicked through online legal contracts. We may have also “signed” our initials to online legal documents from our bank or insurance company. In fact, big companies like Microsoft, Cisco, USAA and Schwab have been using E-Sign tools for millions of legal forms for several years. But, most individuals and small business managers currently do not use electronic signatures as part of their daily routine. That’s probably because, until now, using electronic signatures has been hard to figure out and make work, given all the other hectic demands on everyone’s time.

Well, now everyone can save some trees, kill the fax machine and start going paperless by electronically signing most legal documents as easily as using email. RocketLawyer.com now offers a simple E-Signature tool called “RocketSign.” It takes only minutes and unlimited use is free for members, so anyone should have no problem getting the hang of E-signing legal documents online in record time.

Are E-Signatures legal?

The answer is yes, and there are federal guidelines that legal document services can follow, especially since President Clinton signed into law the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (the “E-Signature Act”), which became effective in the US on October 1, 2000. Ever since, online E-Signatures have gained growing acceptance because, according to experts, the E-Signature Act renders online electronic signatures on most contracts as legally equivalent to written signatures. For more information, see: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2001/06/esign7.htm

RocketSign™ E-Signatures

You can now electronically sign hundreds of business and personal legal documents, from non-disclosure agreements to employment, sales, consulting, and licensing contracts to pre-nuptial agreements and real estate leases. You can also upload and sign any other personal or business contract, regardless of where the document was created, so long as you have a PDF or word processor compatible version on your computer and an Internet connection!

How does the RocketSign™ E-Signature process work? Easy! Just go to your RocketLawyer.com Account Manager (if you don’t have one yet, you can create one for free here: http://www.rocketlawyer.com). Follow a few simple instructions and – zap – your legal document is sent via email for E-Signature by the other party to your agreement. It takes only minutes for the other party to then electronically sign and it is automatically sent back to you to be a final, legal contract!"

For more information, please visit: http://www.rocketlawyer.com/e-signatures.aspx

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