'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay is being sued by a law firm because it 'does not have a law degree'
It's facing a proposed class actionfiled by Chicago-based law firm Edelson on March 3 and published Thursday on the website of the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of San Francisco.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Jonathan Faridian, who said he'd used DoNotPay to draft various legal documents including demand letters, a small claims court filing, and a job discrimination complaint., Faridian believed he'd purchased legal documents"from a lawyer that was competent to provide them," but got"substandard" results.
claims that it can help customers fight corporations, beat bureaucracy, find hidden money, and"sue anyone." He said DoNotPay was"not going to be bullied by America's richest class action lawyer" in a reference to Edelson founder Jay Edelson. "Time and time again the only people that win are the lawyers. So I wanted to do something about it, building the DoNotPay robot lawyer to empower consumers to take on corporations on their own," he said.