Legal tech firm Upsolve Inc. lost its fight against New York Attorney General Letitia James arguing the state’s rules against the unauthorized practice of law violated its First Amendment rights.
The lawsuit, which alleged New York rules preventing trained non-lawyers from providing free legal advice to debt-collection defendants violates free speech, was tossed Thursday by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Kaplan found the state has a substantial interest in protecting the public from incompetent or unethical legal representation through licensing requirements. The regulations are narrowly tailored to only restrict ...
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