The Hyatt organization was founded in 1977 as a way to make quality legal services affordable and accessible for all Americans. It quickly grew into one of the largest law firms in the U.S. In 1981, Hyatt Legal Services implemented its first group legal plan, utilizing its attorney offices throughout the country to provide legal assistance to plan members.

Hyatt's first group legal plan sponsors included American Express, Deere and PepsiCo, and they remain Hyatt legal plan sponsors today. Hyatt Legal Plans was spun off from Hyatt Legal Services in 1990 and was acquired by MetLife in 1997.

Today, Hyatt Legal Plans is the largest group legal plan provider in the country, serving six million plan members and their families at over 1,200 sponsors, including more than 115 of the Fortune 500® companies.


1977 Hyatt Legal Services law firm founded
1981 First group legal plan implemented
1987 First voluntary enrollment legal plan implemented
1990 Hyatt Legal Plans spun off from Hyatt Legal Services
1997 Hyatt Legal Plans acquired by MetLife
1999 1 million legal plan participants
2002 500 group legal plan sponsors
2005 All of the world's largest employee benefit consultants that sponsor a legal plan for their own employees chose Hyatt Legal Plans
2006 Hyatt Legal Plans receives "Standard of Excellence" WebAward and wins Call Center Excellence Award
2007 10th anniversary as a MetLife Company, 100 Fortune 500® sponsors, 1,000 sponsors, 4 million participants and 10,000 plan attorneys
2010 More than 115 Fortune 500® sponsors, 1,200 sponsors and 11,000 plan attorneys