In October 2015, the American Bar Association and San Francisco-based online legal services provider Rocket Lawyer Inc. teamed up to address “the difficulty small businesses face finding affordable legal services.”

Dubbed ABA Law Connect, the pilot-project allowed small businesses to query a licensed lawyer for a flat fee of $4.95, and in the event that further legal services are needed, the questioner could follow up with the lawyer at a pre-negotiated rate. It launched last year with tests in Illinois, Pennsylvania and California, and was put forward as a way to connect lawyers from the ABA’s network with Rocket Lawyers’ clients, via its cloud platform.

The project proved short-lived: By January 10, 2016, ABA Law Connect was dead.

Rocket Lawyer CEO and founder Charley Moore said the project had been a “great success” while it lasted and said he did not fully understand the position of several bar associations that opposed the project.

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