LegalZoom had previously settled
unauthorized practice lawsuits in California, Missouri and Washington.
Elsewhere, LegalZoom has settled
unauthorized practice lawsuits.
Not exact matches
Additionally, Lorelei has helped forge positive business resolutions of complex matters, including a long - standing dispute and litigation between a Palm Beach County hospital and a group of physicians who held a ground lease on hospital property and provided services at the hospital; a long - standing
lawsuit between two groups of physicians over the breakup of their
practice group; a prominent sports figure's multimillion dispute over a license agreement; a sports broadcaster's claims against a video company for
unauthorized use of his name and likeness; and class actions involving consumer debt collection services.
Those were just two of a string of state
lawsuits seeking to bar the company from engaging in
unauthorized practice.
So too, the vast majority of UPL
lawsuits filed against cyber-lawyer products are brought by lawyers or
unauthorized -
practice committees and generally settle without examples of harm.
It doesn't alter the quality or the usefulness of the services of non-traditional legal service providers, nor does it have any bearing on the extent to which their activities may or may not constitute the
unauthorized practice of law (although the Resolution may very well dampen enthusiasm for future
lawsuits by state and local bar associations in that regard).
Last month, a Missouri law firm filed a class action
lawsuit against LegalZoom on behalf of three LegalZoom customers, alleging that LegalZoom violate Missouri's
unauthorized practice of law statute.
Lawyers file
lawsuit against a large Chicago - area real estate company for engaging in the «
unauthorized practice of law.»
The Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association filed a
lawsuit recently against Koenig & Strey Inc., a large Chicago - area real estate company, for engaging in the «
unauthorized practice of law.»
The court noted that the thrust of the
lawsuit was not that these transactions posed legal questions which demanded the expertise of a lawyer nor that the plaintiffs received incompetent representation, but only that by charging a separate fee for its services in connection with the documentation and closing of the transaction, MLRB engaged in the
unauthorized practice of law.