Final month, DoNotPay, the self-proclaimed World’s First Robotic Lawyer, publicly announced that it was discontinuing its non-consumer rights legal products after publicity stunts involving having a robot lawyer seem in site visitors court docket and providing $1 million to have its chatbot deal with a U.S. Supreme Court case. Within the aftermath, there have been considerations that the corporate’s actions had damaged the access to justice cause, amongst different issues. This all got here after a Twitter frenzy questioning the validity of a few of DoNotPay’s merchandise, initiated by Kathryn Tewson, a paralegal at a agency in Washington state.
Legaltech Information just lately sat down with Tewson, who beforehand labored in tech assist at Microsoft and as an investigator previous to turning into a paralegal, to debate the incident, why she began investigating DoNotPay, the current fraud lawsuit she initated, and extra.
