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by dragonwriter 928 days ago
> This may be an ironic question, but have you consulted any attorneys on your risk of running a tool such as this? Seems like this is one of those things where your edge cases will be company-killing lawsuits. If not criminal charges.

That's not necessarily an edge case: contract review is practice of law, and offering it publicly unlicensed practice of law, in many (maybe most) US jurisdictions, often subject to both tort liability from anyone harmed -- potentially either customers or lawyers, though its harder for the latter to prove particularized injury -- and criminal charges. Its why Donotpay.com, who was offering that publiclty earlier in the year, pivoted out of that space and other practice-of-law spaces after media attention, government investigations, and the leading wave of private litigation on the issue hit them.