Class Action Complaint Against DoNotPay Inc. in San Francisco Superior Court
Summary
A class action complaint was filed in San Francisco Superior Court against DoNotPay Inc., a company initially premised on using AI to automate parking ticket disputes. The complaint alleges that DoNotPay’s branding as “the world’s first robot lawyer” and DoNotPay’s use of a “Robot Lawyer” to “draft demand letters, an independent contractor agreement, a small claims court filing, two LLC operating agreements, and an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission job discrimination complaint” constitutes the unauthorized practice of law. The case has since been removed to federal court and awaits further proceedings. Independent of this case, in January 2023, DoNotPay’s founder offered $1 million dollars to an attorney willing to let the service argue at the Supreme Court (through a human attorney wearing Apple AirPods).
