Vanessa Butnick, Esq.Vice President, Research and Product Development

As Vice President of Research and Product Development, Vanessa Butnick is responsible for overseeing nationwide product and service development and strategic research. Before joining LegalZoom in 2007, she was an associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and at Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, focusing her practice on bankruptcy and corporate reorganizations. Butnick later served as legal consultant for FindLegalForms.com and SmartRules.com, where she helped develop and improve each company’s suite of online legal offerings.

She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and received her J.D. from Yale Law School.