Legal Shred

What Legal Shred does

Legal Shred Inc. is a privately held, US-based document destruction service provider headquartered in New York (7 Park Avenue), with additional offices across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island. The company operates a fleet of mobile shred trucks that travel to customer locations to perform on-site paper shredding, with live viewing monitors that allow customers to witness the destruction process. In addition to its core document shredding service, the company offers hard drive and electronic media destruction (with certificate of destruction), electronics recycling, secure X-ray film disposal, HIPAA-compliant medical records shredding, and document storage. Through a partnership with RedBags.com, it also provides medical waste disposal services to healthcare customers.

The company's technology stack is operational rather than software-driven: specialized mobile shred trucks, secure locked containers deployed at recurring commercial customer sites, and a Certificate of Destruction workflow for compliance documentation. The business holds NAID AAA certification and advertises compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, and FACTA, positioning it as a compliant vendor for healthcare, financial, and government accounts. In April 2024, the company acquired Record Storage Solutions, adding records storage to the service portfolio.

Legal Shred generates revenue through unit-based pricing for one-time residential purges ($75-$150 typical) and container-based pricing for commercial recurring service (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly), supplemented by electronics recycling, hard drive destruction, and partnership-derived medical waste revenue. The go-to-market is direct-to-consumer, primarily phone- and web-driven, with multiple toll-free regional numbers, a heavy local SEO investment across 25+ US states, and field-based service delivery. Customer segments include residential homeowners, commercial businesses, healthcare providers, legal practices, and government agencies. The company is owned by Jason Fredricks and co-founded by Judith Papo, with Sean Fredricks serving as President and Greg Parker as Director.

Name

Legal Shred

Legal name

Legal Shred Inc.

Website

https://legalshred.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Legal Shred Inc. is a privately held US document destruction company that provides mobile on-site paper shredding, hard drive destruction, electronics recycling, and records storage to residential and commercial customers across 25+ states, with headquarters in New York.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Document Destruction Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Confidential Document & Media Destruction (On-site Shredding Programs) (BPABALAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Confidential Document Destruction & Secure Recycling (Shredding) (IMAIAFAO), Data Destruction Services (On-site/Off-site, Media Sanitization) (BPALAIAC), Records Retention, Archiving & Shredding Coordination (HSAFAEAE)

Keywords

• Document shredding services
• Mobile shredding
• Hard drive destruction
• Electronics recycling
• Medical records shredding

Headquarters

HQ city

Gibsonton

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Document Shredding Services: Primary revenue stream from on-site and off-site document destruction services. Pricing based on container size (straightforward per-container pricing), serving both one-time purge jobs and recurring scheduled services for businesses.
2. Hard Drive Destruction: Physical destruction of hard drives, USB drives, and electronic media at customer locations with certificate of destruction provided.
3. Electronics Recycling: Recycling services for monitors, printers, keyboards, batteries, and other electronic waste.
4. Medical Waste Disposal: Medical waste disposal services offered through RedBags.com partnership for healthcare industry customers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Legal Shred provides mobile, on-site paper shredding services with viewing monitors for commercial and residential customers, including scheduled recurring service and one-time purges. The company also offers hard drive destruction, electronics recycling, secure X-ray disposal, medical records shredding, drop-off shredding, and related secure disposal services supported by NAID AAA certification and a documented chain of custody.

Product overview

Legal Shred offers a comprehensive document destruction service portfolio centered on secure paper shredding with mobile on-site capabilities. The core offering is Document Shredding complemented by Hard Drive Destruction for electronic media and Electronics Recycling. Additional specialized services include Secure X-Ray Disposal, Medical Records Shredding, and Medical Waste Disposal (via RedBags.com partnership). The company provides flexible service models including mobile shredding (where customers can watch the destruction via viewing monitor), drop-off shredding, one-time purges, and scheduled recurring programs. Document Storage is also available as an add-on service. All services include Certificate of Destruction for compliance records.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Commercial Shredding Recurring and one-time on-site paper shredding service for businesses, with locked consoles, scheduled visits, and a certificate of destruction issued at each pickup; designed for healthcare, legal, financial, government, and other regulated commercial accounts.
• Residential Shredding On-site paper shredding service for homeowners handling personal records, tax documents, and bulk household paperwork, with witnessed destruction via truck-mounted monitors.
• Hard Drive Destruction Physical destruction of hard drives and other digital media to render data unrecoverable, completed with a serialized certificate of destruction for compliance with HIPAA, FACTA, GLBA, and other regulations.
• Electronics Recycling Environmentally responsible recycling of decommissioned electronic equipment such as computers, laptops, mobile devices, and accessories in accordance with state and federal e-waste regulations.
• Medical Records Shredding HIPAA-compliant shredding of medical records, patient files, and pharmacy documents performed on site with a documented chain of custody and certificate of destruction.
• Drop Off Shredding Walk-in shredding at Legal Shred drop-off locations for customers who prefer to bring documents to a secure facility rather than schedule an on-site truck visit.
• Secure X-Ray Disposal Secure disposal of X-ray films and related medical imaging media to protect patient information and meet HIPAA disposal requirements.
• Document Storage Secure off-site storage service for documents awaiting scheduled destruction, providing an interim holding solution for business records between shredding visits.
• One-Time Shredding Purge Single-visit on-site shredding for large-volume purges such as office cleanouts, file-archive destruction, and end-of-year bulk disposal.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2-3 minutes to shred 10 copy boxes
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• RedBags.comsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerMedical waste disposal partnership through RedBags.com, offering healthcare customers comprehensive waste disposal including medical records and biohazard materials alongside document shredding services.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Recall (Iron Mountain): Records-storage and secure destruction legacy brand now under Iron Mountain, addressing enterprise records retention and end-of-life destruction. Comparable to Legal Shred's document storage add-on service and enterprise accounts.
• Iron Mountain Secure Shredding: Division of Iron Mountain, the dominant records-management incumbent; offers document shredding as part of a broader information-management portfolio including storage, digital conversion, and data protection. Competes with Legal Shred for enterprise shredding and records-retention contracts.
• Cintas Document Shredding: Document destruction service from Cintas, the large facility services and uniform provider; bundles shredding with other business services for SMB and enterprise accounts nationwide. Competes with Legal Shred for commercial recurring contracts as part of a broader service suite.

Direct peers

• Corodata: Regional records storage and shredding provider in the western U.S. combining secure off-site and on-site shredding with records-storage retention services — overlapping with Legal Shred's newer document-storage add-on and combined shred/storage offering.
• Shred-it (Stericycle): North America's largest secure document destruction provider, offering mobile on-site shredding, hard drive destruction, and recurring service programs to commercial and residential customers. Directly competes with Legal Shred on every service line and geography.
• PROSHRED Security: U.S. and Canadian mobile on-site shredding franchise operator providing paper and hard drive destruction with witnessed shredding — the same value proposition and delivery model as Legal Shred. Closely comparable on service, customer segments, and certifications.
• DataShield: Midwest-based NAID AAA-certified provider of mobile and drop-off document destruction plus hard drive destruction — competing business model and compliance positioning to Legal Shred in adjacent U.S. markets.
• Royal Document Destruction Services: Independent U.S. mobile shredding operator offering recurring and one-time secure destruction to businesses, healthcare, and government clients with certified chain-of-custody processes — same product-market fit as Legal Shred.
• ShredX Secure Document Destruction: Regional mobile shredding operator serving the U.S. Northeast with on-site paper and hard drive destruction, recurring service programs, and NAID AAA-equivalent compliance — an apples-to-apples competitor to Legal Shred in overlapping geography.

Others

• RedBags.com (medical waste partner): Medical waste disposal partner referenced in Legal Shred's own revenue streams; an ecosystem partner rather than competitor, illustrating the kind of vertical-specific service provider that anchors healthcare-related recurring accounts.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/legalshred
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCCT-cwAiC6d_uofIFIPlBxg
• Facebookfacebook.com/legalshred
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/legal-shred-inc-

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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