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Estate planning in Clearwater: the contract, and a field no roll-up can enter

The Clearwater estate planning contract names PLG Law, LLLP as its mark. They return on ten of the fifteen searches this board tracks, and first on the Medicaid planning search. Twelve years of Florida filings sit behind the trading name, on three records that connect to one another.

Estate planning — the mark

PLG Law, LLLP

Clearwater

Ten of fifteen searches held, and twelve years of filings behind the name.

Open

Every reading on this page came from a public source that anyone can check. Each one names the register or platform it was read from, and the date it was read, in the list at the bottom.

The searches they hold, and where they come back

The contract fixes fifteen searches in writing before any work starts — the ones somebody in Clearwater actually types when they need estate planning. This is where PLG Law, LLLP came back on the ones they hold, and what came back above them. A position reads “5 of 6” because it is a place in the list that search returned, not a rank we can see inside Google.

Where PLG Law, LLLP returns on the fifteen searches this contract tracks
The searchWhere they came backAbove them
estate planning attorney Clearwater FL4 of 82 directories, 1 independent
estate planning attorney company Clearwater Florida4 of 72 independent
estate planning attorney services near Clearwater FL8 of 84 directories, 2 independent
living trust Clearwater FL5 of 92 directories, 2 independent
probate administration Clearwater FL3 of 91 directory, none
Medicaid planning Clearwater FL1 of 8none
power of attorney Clearwater FL3 of 91 directory, none
Who should I call for living trust in Clearwater, Florida?4 of 92 directories, 1 independent
I need probate administration in Clearwater today — name specific companies.5 of 93 directories, none
Recommend a licensed estate planning attorney near Clearwater, Florida.6 of 75 directories, none

10 of the fifteen, read once on August 1, 2026. A single reading on a single day is a snapshot, not a trend, and nothing here claims a position holds tomorrow. Counts of who came back above them cover the domains whose owner we could establish; where we could not, the domain is left out of those counts rather than guessed into one, so they are a floor.

Who they are, on the record

Every line here is a filing the company made itself, read from the state’s own register on August 1, 2026. It is here because a contract names a company, and a company is whatever the register says it is.

Register

PLG Law, LLLP

Operating entity
PLG Law, LLLP — a Florida limited partnership
Florida document number
A20000000268
Filed
10 July 2020
Status, read from the detail page
ACTIVE
2026 annual report
Filed 9 April 2026
General partner named on the filing
One, a Florida professional limited liability company, document L13000171969
That company filed
12 December 2013
That company's status
ACTIVE, with an annual report in every year from 2014 to 2026
Name history on that document
Renamed by amendment on 26 January 2023
Trading name
A registered Florida fictitious name since 22 March 2019
Current fictitious-name registration
Runs to 31 December 2030, owned by that same document number
Corporate owner on any filing read
None — every authorised person is an individual
Years on the Florida register
12, from the earliest registration in the evidenced chain

Read from the register’s own detail pages, not from a search result. A found record is not an active record, and a status in a results list is not a status.

Why we are willing to name them

Naming a real company in public is a decision, not a flourish. Three things have to be true before a business appears on this board, and each one is a reading rather than an opinion. A business that fails any of them is not named, and the trade ships without a target — which has happened.

  1. No outside money is behind them, and in this trade there cannot be

    The partnership's own filing names one general partner and gives its document number, and that partner is a Florida professional limited liability company whose filing names two individuals. Two officer searches and an address search, each run beside a control that returned its documented result, came back with Florida entities held by named people and nothing else. Florida bars nonlawyer ownership of a law practice, so no institutional owner appears in the filings and none can.

  2. The firm is trading today, on the state's own record

    The partnership's Florida detail record — read from the register's detail page, never from a results row — reads Status ACTIVE, with the 2026 annual report filed on 9 April 2026. Its general partner's record reads ACTIVE as well, with an annual report filed in every year from 2014 to 2026 and no gap anywhere in the run.

  3. Every register fact here was read again before it was published

    The entity detail record, the name-history record and both registrations of the trading name were re-read on the day of the last pass, and each returned the value published above. Two of the entity records came back byte-for-byte identical to the earlier reading, and the archive route was re-run against a control that reproduced its documented first-capture date exactly.

The field they sit in

Forty-two distinct domains returned across the fifteen searches this contract tracks, and a national legal directory took first position on thirteen of them. No domain in this field resolves to a franchise brand and none resolves to a private-equity group, which in this trade is structural: Florida bars nonlawyer ownership of a law practice. Twenty-one are left unclassified — either seen too rarely to place, or with no ownership readable in the register.

Who is competingDomains
Directories and lead aggregators10
National franchise brands0
Private-equity-held groups0
Independent local firms11
Seen too rarely to classify21
Distinct domains in total42

Counted across all fifteen searches. A domain seen once or twice is left unclassified rather than counted as independent — not knowing who owns something is not the same as knowing it is local.

What their reviews say, and what they do not

There is no review figure on this page for PLG Law, LLLP, and that is a statement about what we could read rather than about them. No review figure for this firm reproduced anywhere on the day of the pass. Their own site carries hand-placed testimonials and no count of any kind, one platform's business record for them carries a rating field reading null, and the map surface served a page built by JavaScript. A null field is that platform holding no rating — not a rating of zero, and not a count.

You will not find a Google review count anywhere on this site. Google Maps returns a page built by JavaScript to every automated reader we have, on every one of these businesses, so any Google figure we published would be one we had not actually read. Where a number appears, it names the platform it came from instead.

How long they have been visible

Their website has been archived since September 2019 — the same year the trading name was first registered with the state, and the year before the operating partnership itself was formed. First captures only: when an asset first appeared is position, and anything about when it was last touched is a defect somebody could close in an afternoon.

What we are not claiming

Research turns up things that do not survive a second look, and things that are true but not ours to publish. Both are listed here, because a page that prints only the flattering half of its own evidence is a sales page, and this is supposed to be a record.

Anything about any individual attorney's standing.
Not admission dates, not discipline history, not membership, not firm size, and not board certification in either direction. Fla. Bar Rule 4-7.14 governs the words around certification, and a client who is also uncertified gains nothing from the contrast. The Bar's own profile route returns a client-rendered shell for members who demonstrably exist, so it is unavailable rather than a not-found, and no claim on this page is built on it either way.
Any statutory fee figure.
This trade's research already caught a misstated Florida probate fee band on a page this site had shipped, which is what a number retyped from memory looks like once it is public. No statutory figure appears anywhere on this page, in any wording. Where the number matters to a buyer, the statute is the source and we are not.
That another domain publishing the same suite and telephone number is the same firm.
One other domain in this field publishes the identical suite and the identical telephone number that the state record and the platform record both carry, and a cross-trade ownership map already records it as belonging to the same group. That is what was read and that is the whole of what is said. No filing merges the two, and none is asserted here.
The searches they do not hold.
Ten of the fifteen came back. Naming the other five would hand a content to-do list to a business this contract is sold to outrank, and a to-do list is the one thing this board does not publish about anyone.
That the searches were read twice.
They were read once. Every position published above is a single dated observation and this page says so rather than calling it confirmed. A second reading is what the next pass adds, and until it exists the figures stand as one reading each.
Any claim about who returns above them on their own name.
The brand-query defence was never run — the search budget was spent before those three queries could be issued, and the fallback surface was serving a bot challenge the same day. Unavailable is not the same sentence as nobody outranks them on their own name, and this page does not turn one into the other.

Why does the estate planning contract name PLG Law?

PLG Law returns on more of the fifteen estate planning searches this contract tracks than any other firm in the field, and it clears all three naming gates. Its Florida record is an active limited partnership whose sole general partner is a professional limited liability company, named on the partnership's own filing.

The gate that matters most in this trade is the fair fight, and estate planning answers it structurally rather than by luck. Florida bars nonlawyer ownership of a law practice. There is no private-equity parent behind any firm in this field and there cannot be one, which is why the archetype that shapes the home-services trades on this board has no analogue here at all.

That was verified rather than assumed. The partnership's filing names one general partner and gives its document number. That company's filing names two authorised persons and both are individuals. Two officer searches and one address search were run against a working control and returned only Florida entities held by named people — no holding company, no trust, no fund, and no out-of-state corporate member anywhere in the results.

What returns above PLG Law on a Clearwater estate planning search?

National legal directories, mostly. Forty-two distinct domains returned across the fifteen estate planning searches this contract tracks, ten of them met the classification bar as national directories, and a directory took first position on thirteen of the fifteen. The firms in between are single-office practices and small multi-office groups.

Directory dominance is the shape of this trade's search results everywhere and it is nobody's failure. A legal directory is a well-funded national publisher with a page for every lawyer in the country; a Clearwater firm is one office. What a ninety-day contract can move is position among the firms, which is what the table above measures and all it measures.

Nothing in this field classifies as a franchise brand and nothing classifies as a private-equity group — zero of the forty-two, on the same screen that found both in other trades on this board. Twenty-one of the forty-two are left unclassified, either seen too rarely to place or with no ownership readable in the register, and unclassified is not another word for independent.

Related: Estate planning marketingHow the result is measured

How long has the firm behind PLG Law been on the Florida register?

Twelve years, counted from the earliest registration in a chain of filings that connect. A professional limited liability company was registered in December 2013 under a different name, changed that name by amendment in January 2023, and owns the trading name on the fictitious-name register under both names.

This board publishes twelve where it once published six, and that is a change of basis rather than a correction. Six was the operating partnership's own filing date in 2020. Twelve is the earliest registration in an evidenced chain, which is the rule every target on this board is counted by, and here three separate filings connect the links — including a name-change record the state holds under one document number.

The trading name has been a registered Florida fictitious name since March 2019. Both registrations of it name the same company as owner: under its former name in 2019 and under its current name in 2025, with the same document number and the same federal identification number printed on each. That is what makes it one company under two names rather than two firms with a similar brand.

Where each of these came from

Every register and platform read for this page, with the date it was read. Follow any of them and you will land where we landed.

  1. Florida Division of Corporations — Entity detail and name-history records

    search.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  2. Florida Division of Corporations — Fictitious-name register, every row in the window

    dos.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  3. Florida Division of Corporations — Fictitious-name detail, the 2019 registration

    dos.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  4. Florida Division of Corporations — Fictitious-name detail, the registration running to 2030

    dos.sunbiz.org · read August 2, 2026

  5. Internet Archive — First-capture index for the domain

    web.archive.org · read August 2, 2026

  6. The firm's own website — Homepage, read for identity and for any review count

    plglawyer.com · read August 2, 2026

What this contract costs, and why this number

The estate planning contract is $11,800 for ninety days against PLG Law, LLLP. Half is due on execution and half only if you finish ahead of them. The figure is computed from four readings — how many of the fifteen searches they hold, how many other firms are ranking alongside them, how long the company has existed, and how consolidated the trade is — and it is scaled against the other twelve trades on the board rather than pulled from a rate card.

How the result is measured, in full →Every published price →

Common questions

Does this page say anything about the lawyers at the firm it names?
No, and that is deliberate rather than incidental. Nothing about any individual attorney's admission, discipline, standing, membership or certification appears here, in either direction. Florida Bar Rule 4-7.14 governs the words around board certification and a contrast either way is refused. Every line above is about a company on a state register.
Why does this estate planning contract publish no review count?
Because none reproduced on the day of the pass. The firm's own site carries hand-placed testimonials and no count of any kind. One platform's business record for the firm carries a rating field reading null, which is that platform holding no rating — not a rating of zero and not a review count. A null on this board means not read.
Can a private-equity group buy an estate planning practice in Clearwater?
Not a law practice. Florida bars nonlawyer ownership of one, which forecloses the roll-up and franchise patterns that shape the home-services trades on this board. It is why the fair-fight gate on this row clears structurally: there is no institutional owner in any filing read, and on the register's own terms there cannot be one.

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