DoNotPay CEO Joshua Browder says claims have ‘no merit’An AI-powered ‘robot lawyer’ that helps consumers fight parking tickets and other charges is facing a lawsuit over claims that don’t have the correct legal standing to practice law.
Filed earlier this month in the San Francisco County Superior Court, the claim alleges DoNotPay is “not actually a robot”, “does not have a law degree” and is “not barred in any jurisdiction”.
The action is being brought by US law firm Edelson on behalf of Jonathan Faridian, who claims he used the app to draft various legal documents including a small…
An NWT Supreme Court judge has signed off on an order to appoint another lawyer to potentially help Devon Larabie represent himself in his murder trial later this year.
That’s if Larabie dismisses his current lawyer before the trial.
Larabie is scheduled to go on trial Nov. 14 for second degree murder in the death of Breanna Menacho, whose body was found in a Yellowknife apartment in May 2020.
Larabie’s current lawyer is Michael Spratt, an Ottawa-based criminal defense lawyer who also works in the Northwest Territories.
Spratt is the fourth publicly-appointed lawyer to represent Larabie in this case. Larabie…