Nolo - Your Legal Companion

Nolo is your legal companion, empowering you and saving you money whenever the law touches your work, life or finances. We are the nation's oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

"In Nolo you can trust."
-New York Times

"Nolo is always there in a jam..."
-Newsweek

"…nobody does a better job than Nolo."
-USA Today

Our core values and beliefs

We are committed to…

• Remaining the leader in the industry Nolo created: answering the public need for trustworthy and accessible legal information and tools.
• Ongoing innovation and a clear understanding of the needs of our customers.
• Increasing people's awareness of what Nolo's competitive advantage - the highest quality products from the most trusted source - can mean for them.

We believe…

• We contribute to the good of society by helping people at important, often critical times in their lives, empowering them and saving them money.
• Running a healthy business means honoring our unique responsibilities to our employees, colleagues, authors, partners and shareholders.
• Profit and progress are essential parts of how we're able to support our core values.

A little information about Nolo

Since 1971, Nolo has offered affordable, plain-English books, forms and software on a wide range of legal issues, including wills, estate planning, retirement, elder care, personal finance, taxes, housing, real estate, divorce and child custody. We also offer materials on human resources, employment, intellectual property, and starting and running a small business.

Everything we publish is regularly revised, updated and improved by our staff of lawyer-editors, to make sure that it's the best it can be. We pay close attention not only to changes in the law and feedback from our customers, but also from the input we receive from lawyers, judges and court staffers.

Nolo is supported by a staff of over one hundred legal editors, software developers, customer service representatives, salespeople, web developers and others. Everyday, they strive to provide customers with the most accurate, easy-to-use plain-English legal and business solutions available. They are the people behind Nolo's trusted legal expertise, great customer service and commitment to being Your Legal Companion.

Nolo stands behind everything we sell with a straightforward guarantee of satisfaction: Nolo's promise to you.

If we ran the American legal system, we'd make it simpler, fairer, and more accessible to ordinary individuals and businesses. Our way of working for change is to publish reliable, easy-to-understand tools and information that just about anyone can use. Whether or not you decide to hire an attorney, the knowledge you gain from Nolo will serve you well, and save you money.

A little history

In the early 1970s, Ralph "Jake" Warner was a legal aid lawyer, serving low-income families in the San Francisco Bay area. Frustrated with a legal system that was complicated and too expensive for average working Americans, Warner and a few colleagues began writing do-it-yourself legal guides.

After numerous publishers rejected them, Warner and his colleagues began publishing the books themselves. When personal computers came along, software was added to many Nolo books. And when the Internet arrived, Nolo created a website that offered free information and resources.

Today, the company still operates out of a former clock factory in Berkeley, California, and remains true to the original vision of its founders.