Gupta

BACKGROUND

A. Gupta Accepts an Offer For an Executive Level Position at LegalZoom and Signs an Arbitration Agreement as Part of His Employment Agreement Gupta alleged in his complaint that in or around June 2020, he was the Head of Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) at Walmart eCommerce, and he had unvested stock options with his employer valued at $300,000. At that time, LegalZoom recruited him to apply to be its Head of FP&A, a Senior Director position. His first interview on or around July 2, 2020 was with LegalZoom’s Vice President of Finance and Corporate Planning, and his final interview was with the Chief Executive Officer. In a declaration he submitted in support of his opposition to LegalZoom’s motion to compel arbitration, Gupta described the recruitment process for the executive level position at LegalZoom, and the circumstances under which he signed the arbitration agreement, as follows. During a nearly two-month interview process, Gupta learned that “the priority for the role was transforming LegalZoom’s financial reporting and regulatory team and bona fides to that of a public company in anticipation of a very near-

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