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\"artificial-intelligence-4111582_1920\"You know what sucks? Speeding tickets. Worse than that? Going to court to dispute one without a lawyer. There was a silver lining for a moment \u2014 sure the tickets suck, but at least you could get about as close to a lawyer as you’d need to handle it<\/a>. That safety net is probably going the way of the Dodo. From the ABA Journal:<\/p>\n

A would-be class action lawsuit alleges that the DoNotPay website is engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and is harming its customers by providing legal services that are \u201csubstandard and poorly done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The March 3 suit alleges that DoNotPay violated California\u2019s unfair competition law by holding itself out as a lawyer to California residents and by selling legal services there without a law license.<\/p>\n

The DoNotPay legal chatbot was founded in 2015\u00a0to help people fight traffic tickets<\/a>, but it\u00a0later expanded<\/a>\u00a0to help people with immigration applications, small-claims suits and other legal matters. Its founder, Joshua Browder, is a 2017 ABA Journal Legal Rebel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those expansions feel a lot farther reaching than speeding tickets! Unfortunately, the suit alleges that the branching out was just more areas for DoNotPay to fail.<\/p>\n

The name plaintiff in the suit is Jonathan Faridian, who said he used DoNotPay to draft demand letters, an independent contractor agreement, a small-claims court filing, two LLC operating agreements, and a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.<\/p>\n

But some of the documents \u201cwere so poorly or inaccurately drafted that he could not even use them,\u201d the suit says. Demand letters that were supposed to be sent to the opposing party were returned undelivered to Faridian\u2019s home. When Faridian opened one of the letters, a blank piece of paper was inside. He also requested an agency agreement for an online marketing business that he wanted to start, but the language didn\u2019t seem to apply to his business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Will this mark the end of DoNotPay? Probably not \u2014 anybody willing to stake a million dollars on the efficacy of their program will likely put in enough work to craft an argument for why this isn’t<\/em> the unlawful practice of law. Maybe? I’m sure the program will help him figure something out.<\/p>\n

DoNotPay Doesn\u2019t Live Up To Its Billing As A ‘Robot Lawyer,’ Offers ‘Substandard’ Legal Docs, Suit Claims<\/a> [ABA Journal]<\/p>\n

Earlier:<\/strong> $1 Million On The Table To Let AI Lawyer Bot Argue Supreme Court Case<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim,\u00a0a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor<\/a>, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DoNotPay might be a prime example of getting what you pay for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142937,"featured_media":712235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9509,2306,699,7],"class_list":["post-26712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-courts","tag-donotpay","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nYou Know What Doesn't Have Diploma Privilege? 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