LegalZoom, Inc. v. North Carolina State Bar

LegalZoom (plaintiff) sued the North Carolina State Bar (defendant) to permit North Carolina consumers to use its interactive, question-based document-generation software, which the bar had argued constituted the unauthorized practice of law. The parties settled via consent judgment, under which LegalZoom's services would not be treated as the unauthorized practice of law for two years (or until the state amended its practice-of-law statute), provided LegalZoom met six specified conditions.