---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001286139-25-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LZ"
cik: "0001286139"
company_name: "LEGALZOOM.COM, INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T01:45:23.955476+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# LegalZoom appoints Charles Thomas as Chief Accounting Officer, effective Feb 3, 2025

## Summary
- Charles Thomas appointed CAO effective Feb 3, 2025; Noel Watson remains CFO/COO.
- Thomas was SVP & CAO at Veritone Inc. and VP Controller at TrueCar before LegalZoom.
- Annual base salary of $340,000 plus cash bonus up to 30% of base.
- Expected RSU grant of $1,300,000: 25% vests at 1yr, remainder quarterly over 3 years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001286139-25-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LZ
- cik: 0001286139
- company_name: LEGALZOOM.COM, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286139/000128613925000005/0001286139-25-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286139/000128613925000005/lz-20250107.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001286139-25-000005.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Noel Watson changed role as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at LEGALZOOM.COM, INC..
  - Action: cease to serve as principal accounting officer
  - Role: Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective February 3, 2025, Noel Watson, the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, will cease to serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286139/000128613925000005/0001286139-25-000005-index.htm
- Executive change
  Charles Thomas was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at LEGALZOOM.COM, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On January 7, 2025, LegalZoom.com, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Charles Thomas as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, effective February 3, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1286139/000128613925000005/0001286139-25-000005-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.