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Legal questions about the establishing, incorporating, or funding a startup are among the most common that entrepreneurs have. There's perhaps a distrust of lawyers and a sense that legal advice will be too costly. As we've written about before, LawPivot tackles this problem by providing a place where startups can ask legal questions and get crowdsourced answers from qualified lawyers. By doing so, LawPivot lowers some of the barriers that startups might face - legal and logistical - when trying to find a lawyer.

Up until now, this service has only been available in California, but LawPivot announces today that it's opening availability nationwide.

Questions about the legal requirements surrounding the establishment, incorporation or funding of a startup may be among the most common and most challenging that entrepreneurs face. There's the general distrust of lawyers, alongside the sense - true or not - that legal advice will be too costly.

LawPivot tackles this problem by providing a place where companies, but especially startups, can ask legal questions and get crowdsourced answers from qualified lawyers. LawPivot aims to ease some of the obstacles - financial, but also logistical - that make finding a lawyer so difficult.