IncSpot.com - Dec/Jan '01

IncSpot.com

Internet & Intranet Tools
Practice Specific

IncSpot.com’s Web site offers many services to corporate and litigation attorneys and other legal professionals. IncSpot bills itself as a “powerful, easy-to-use tool” for document filing and retrieval, registered agent services and corporate filings all through its site at www.incspot.com.

It’s well-organized, clean and simple to use. Although the Web site is free, you must register, and you rack up service fees when you place orders.

IncSpot offers services, including corporate services, such as Uniform Commercial Codes filing preparation, state and federal tax lien searches and lien services, including fixture searches and mechanic liens.

Litigation services include local and federal lawsuit searches and bankruptcy and criminal searches. Some real estate services include grantor/grantee searches, mortgage searches, ownership verification and property searches. Document retrieval searches include good standing certificates, name availability and reservation, status searches and tax certificates.

A useful feature is the ability to place orders online 24 hours a day. The new Order Results feature allows you to view, print and search the results of all your orders in a variety of ways, so you can track assignment status.
They also offer an online library that contains forms and outlines for most entity types and filing actions for all 50 states. The official state forms can be viewed, filled out and printed from the browser using Adobe’s Acrobat Reader.

IncSpot offers links to individual state sites for corporate name searches and business entity searches. Some of the links were stale, and the page was last updated three months earlier. But, I went back a day later, and the page was updated. IncSpot is protected with Secured Socket Layer (SSL). The only trouble I experienced was IncSpot’s lack of consistency with the sales and public relations department.

Overall, IncSpot’s a good service.

Corporation Service Company
(888) 462-7768
www.incspot.com

DOS, Mac, Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 or higher, with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher.

Price: CSC offers a variety of services with fees ranging from approximately $5 to $120.

Reviewed by Melynda Hill-Teter, paralegal, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Dec/Jan '01 Issue

PROS
Clean, organized, simple-to-use Web site. Technical support personnel were knowledgeable. Reasonable service fees. Convenient, online, after-hours ordering. Good place to find legal information.

CONS
Telephone sales and public relation departments were slow to respond to requests for information.

VERDICT
I say yes to IncSpot, but service was either very good or very bad.