Re:Robot lawyer DoNotPay now lets you ‘sue anyone’ via an app
by koolba on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:09PM
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The first thing that came to mind for me was services like LegalZoom and they've had some experience dealing with UPL:
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/latest_legal_vict...
https://www.legalzoom.com/press/press-mentions/unauthorized-...
Re:Robot lawyer DoNotPay now lets you ‘sue anyone’ via an app
by dvtrn on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:14PM
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LegalZoom came to mind immediately, as well actually. Having not read your links (they're loading in separate tabs as I speak (edit: er...type)), was I mistaken thinking that at least LegalZoom has licensed attorneys at least on staff and several others in their 'network'?
When you say 'individual', are you implying individual attorney? Granted, I'm asking because I'd genuinely like someone who has credentials from their state bar (i.e. a licensed attorney) to answer this: their TOS says they are not a law firm, and that they are not providing legal counsel.
If your friend says "yeah man that sucks, you should sue those bastards for what they did to your car", no reasonable person would argue this rises to the definition of 'legal advice'.
But if your friend prescribes what exactly you need to say to a court in the context of legal procedure, when summoned to appear, this doesn't qualify as 'legal counsel'? That I'm curious about.