Hello everyone and welcome to this Ethics Alert, which will discuss recent approval of Rocket lawyer and other entities to participate in Utah’s pilot regulatory “sandbox program.
On September 8, 2020, Rocket Lawyer announced that it was one of the first entities approved by the Utah Supreme Court to participate in the regulatory “sandbox” program permitting, inter alia, nontraditional legal service providers. Rocket Lawyer’s website is here: https://www.rocketlawyer.com/
As I previously blogged here: https://jcorsmeier.wordpress.com/2020/08/18/utah-supreme-court-authorizes-pilot-program-which-inter-alia-permits-non-lawyers-to-own-law-firms-and-share-fees-with-lawyers/, the Utah Supreme Court approved the regulatory “sandbox” pilot program as the primary part of a regulatory reform package which was designed to allow the testing of innovative approaches to serving legal consumers will ultimately improve the public’s access to justice. The Court’s August 14, 2020 Standing Order is here: http://www.utcourts.gov/utc/rules-approved/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/08/FINAL-Utah-Supreme-Court-Standing-Order-No.-15.pdf
A total of five entities were approved for participation in the sandbox program. The other approved applicants were:
- LawHQ: A Salt Lake City law firm which plans to offer equity ownership to certain software developers in the firm and a software application called CallerHQ, which is...
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