‘Robot lawyer’ DoNotPay Beats Lawsuit By Illinois Law Firm

A federal judge on Friday agreed to dismiss, for now, a lawsuit by a small Illinois law firm that accused artificial intelligence company DoNotPay of engaging in the unauthorized practice of law.

Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel in East St. Louis, Illinois said in the decision that law firm MillerKing’s claims are not sufficient to give it legal standing to sue DoNotPay in federal court.

“This case pits real lawyers against a robot lawyer,” Rosenstengel said, finding that the real lawyers had not shown how they were harmed.

MillerKing in March sued DoNotPay, which says on its website that it uses artificial intelligence to help consumers “fight big corporations, protect your privacy, find hidden money, and beat bureaucracy.”

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