Regulation Tracker / enforcement and authorisation
AI legal services for the public: what regulators and courts have done
The official record on AI-enabled legal services offered to the public — enforcement by consumer and legal-services regulators, unauthorized-practice litigation and bar opinions, authorisations under regulatory sandboxes and alternative-structure licences where the regulator itself describes the provider as AI- or software-based, and courts' own AI tools for self-represented people. A service appears here only because a regulator or court acted or listed it; allegations are stated as the regulator framed them and paired with the outcome. SafeLegalAI does not review, rate or recommend consumer services.
compiled by the Cognesio LLP editorial teammethodas of 2026-09-07v0.1.1coding CC BY 4.0US federal works and court orders public domain; regulator prose ≤25 wordsJSON Hugging Face GitHub
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- entities named by a regulator or court
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- enforcement actions
- 25
- sandbox / licence authorisations
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- countries
What the record showsas of 2026-09-07
Counts and shares computed from the dataset at build time. They describe what the record contains; they do not rank, evaluate or advise.
- 43 official actions: 25 sandbox or licence authorisation, 5 unauthorized-practice litigation, 4 regulator register, 4 court or legal-aid ai for the public, 3 policy statement, 2 regulator enforcement.
- By country: Canada 21 · United States 18 · United Kingdom 3 · Germany 1.
- Acting bodies most often on the record: Law Society of Ontario (14), Law Society of British Columbia (7), Utah Supreme Court (6) and Federal Trade Commission (3).
- In 41 of the 43 the regulator's own text describes the service as AI-, chatbot- or software-based; the rest concern AI legal services by the nature of the action.
- By year: 2021 4 · 2022 6 · 2023 2 · 2024 3 · 2025 12 · 2026 16.
Entities on the record
Each entity page is a dated chronology of official actions — nothing more. Anyone named may reply.
- DoNotPay, Inc. 5
- Garfield AI 2
- Jointly Solutions Ltd. 2
- LegalWills 2
- 1Law P.C. / 1Law Legal Services 1
- Access to Innovation participating providers 1
- AI system providers 1
- Airfairness 1
- Arizona Alternative Business Structures Directory 1
- ClearEstate 1
- Darrow AI / Edward & Mansfield, LLC 1
- Deeded 1
- Divii 1
- Divorcio Amigable 1
- Erin Bury / Willful 1
- eState Planner 1
- Hayley Woodin 1
- Illinois Court Help Lex chatbot 1
- Incorporight 1
- Law Society Innovation Sandbox 1
- Lone Star Legal Aid Navi chatbot 1
- Nevada Self-Help Center AI chatbot 1
- Ownright 1
- Philer 1
- Plaid Fertility Law 1
- PR Coach 1
- Rasa Public Benefit Corporation 1
- Scott Nicol / SimpleArb 1
- SkyLaunch 1
- smartlaw 1
- SRA-regulated firms and solicitors 1
- Superlegal (LawGeex / Legalogic) 1
- Upsolve, Inc. 1
- Utah legal regulatory sandbox 1
- Utah legal regulatory sandbox authorized entities 1
- Willful 1
All actions, newest first
| Date | Actor | Entity | Action | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Judicial Branch | Arizona Alternative Business Structures Directory | ABS directory registerDirectory lists entities licensed by the Arizona Supreme Court; reviewed directory text did not verify an AI-described entity for separate inclusion. | Regulator register | |
| Law Society of British Columbia | Law Society Innovation Sandbox | innovation sandbox register pageLaw Society page describes the innovation sandbox and links to approved participants and no-action letters. | Regulator register | |
| Utah Office of Legal Services Innovation | Utah legal regulatory sandbox authorized entities | authorized entities registerRegister page lists sandbox authorizations, Supreme Court orders and partial Rule 5.4 waivers; page states sandbox sunset is August 14, 2027. | Regulator register | |
| Solicitors Regulation Authority | SRA-regulated firms and solicitors | AI warning noticeWarning notice applies to regulated firms and solicitors; SRA says it will have regard to the notice when exercising regulatory functions. | Policy statement | |
| Federal Trade Commission | AI system providers | proposed policy statementProposed FTC policy statement on section 5 deception analysis for marketed AI systems; comments due July 31, 2026. | Policy statement | |
| Garfield AI | Garfield AI | first-party court-trial win accountGarfield states its AI-powered regulated firm supported a freelancer who won a small debt claim at Wandsworth County Court on May 14, 2026. | Court or legal-aid AI for the public | |
| Legal Services Corporation | Lone Star Legal Aid Navi chatbot | LSC-funded public legal-information chatbotLSC highlights LSLA’s Technology Initiative Grant project; the external Navi chatbot is designed to identify legal problems, refer users and share self-help materials. | Court or legal-aid AI for the public | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Willful | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for online will and power-of-attorney document creation. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | PR Coach | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for immigration pathway screening. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Ownright | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for digital real-estate closing services. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Access to Innovation participating providers | A2I provider registerArchived participating-providers page lists A2I providers evaluated and approved to provide technology-enabled legal services in Ontario. | Regulator register | |
| Law Society of Ontario | LegalWills | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for online estate-planning document creation. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Incorporight | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for incorporation and corporate-maintenance services. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | eState Planner | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for estate-planning software used by lawyers and advisors. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | ClearEstate | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for estate-planning, settlement and executor services. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Airfairness | A2I participating provider listingListed as an A2I participating provider for AI-powered air-passenger compensation claims. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | Upsolve, Inc. | appellate remand opinionPreliminary injunction vacated and case remanded for the district court to apply the correct level of First Amendment scrutiny. | Unauthorized-practice litigation | |
| Law Society of British Columbia | Jointly Solutions Ltd. | innovation sandbox no-action letterNo-action letter allows Jointly to automate family-law agreement creation subject to conditions. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | SkyLaunch | A2I update report approval listingListed in the June 2025 A2I update as approved since the 2024 report. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Plaid Fertility Law | A2I update report approval listingListed in the June 2025 A2I update as approved since the 2024 report. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Philer | A2I update report approval listingListed in the June 2025 A2I update as approved since the 2024 report. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Jointly | A2I update report approval listingListed in the June 2025 A2I update as approved since the 2024 report. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of Ontario | Deeded | A2I update report approval listingListed in the June 2025 A2I update as approved since the 2024 report. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Solicitors Regulation Authority | Garfield.Law Ltd | AI-driven law firm authorisation noticeSRA announces authorisation of Garfield.Law Ltd as an AI-based regulated firm; named regulated solicitors remain accountable for outputs and safeguards. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Supreme Court of Nevada Administrative Office of the Courts | Nevada Self-Help Center AI chatbot | court-supported self-help chatbot deploymentNevada Judiciary announces statewide self-help website features including an AI-powered multilingual chatbot for tailored legal information and resources. | Court or legal-aid AI for the public | |
| State of Illinois Office of the Illinois Courts | Illinois Court Help Lex chatbot | court-help chatbot deploymentIllinois Courts announces that Lex, Illinois Court Help’s chatbot, is live and guides court users step-by-step to court-information resources. | Court or legal-aid AI for the public | |
| Utah Supreme Court | Darrow AI / Edward & Mansfield, LLC | authorization termination and Rule 5.4 waiverSandbox authorization terminated as low-innovation ABS; Utah-licensed lawyers may continue practicing with Edward & Mansfield under a partial Rule 5.4 waiver. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Federal Trade Commission | DoNotPay, Inc. | final decision and orderFinal order issued; $193,000 monetary relief, customer notice, substantiation and advertising restrictions; DoNotPay neither admits nor denies allegations except jurisdictional facts. | Regulator enforcement | |
| Federal Trade Commission | DoNotPay, Inc. | proposed consent order noticeProposed order placed on public record for comment; proposed $193,000 payment, customer notices and substantiation requirements. | Regulator enforcement | |
| U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California | DoNotPay, Inc. | stipulated dismissal orderPlaintiff’s claims dismissed with prejudice; order states dismissal does not affect claims of other putative class members. | Unauthorized-practice litigation | |
| U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California | DoNotPay, Inc. | joint settlement status reportParties report a settlement in principle and request time to finalize settlement papers. | Unauthorized-practice litigation | |
| U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois | DoNotPay, Inc. | standing dismissal orderMotion to dismiss granted for lack of Article III standing; November 28 amendment clarifies any dismissal is without prejudice. | Unauthorized-practice litigation | |
| Utah Supreme Court | Divorcio Amigable | provisional sandbox authorizationProvisionally authorized in the Utah sandbox for limited divorce pleading assistance; current register marks the authorization expired. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of British Columbia | Divii | innovation sandbox no-action letterNo-action letter allows Divii to provide automated separation-agreement services subject to conditions. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Utah Supreme Court | Rasa Public Benefit Corporation | amended sandbox authorizationAuthorized to practice law in specified criminal-record services using a software-provider model with lawyer involvement and stated consumer safeguards. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Utah Supreme Court | Utah legal regulatory sandbox | amended standing orderStanding Order No. 15 establishes the pilot sandbox, Innovation Office and Legal Services Innovation Committee through August 14, 2027 unless otherwise provided. | Policy statement | |
| Utah Supreme Court | Superlegal (LawGeex / Legalogic) | amended sandbox authorizationAuthorized to practice law in the Utah sandbox for contract services delivered by a software platform and lawyer employees. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Utah Supreme Court | 1Law P.C. / 1Law Legal Services | amended sandbox authorizationAuthorized to practice law in the Utah sandbox under specified areas, service models, reporting duties and consumer-protection conditions. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of British Columbia | Tim Hewson / Legal Wills.ca | innovation sandbox no-action letterNo-action letter allows the Legal Wills.ca online estate-planning platform subject to conditions. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Bundesgerichtshof | smartlaw | civil judgment on legal-document generatorRevision dismissed; the software-driven contract-document generator is held not to provide an impermissible legal service under the RDG. | Unauthorized-practice litigation | |
| Law Society of British Columbia | Erin Bury / Willful | innovation sandbox no-action letterNo-action letter allows the listed online digital platform subject to sandbox conditions. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of British Columbia | Scott Nicol / SimpleArb | innovation sandbox no-action letterNo-action letter allows the SimpleArb online settlement platform subject to sandbox conditions. | Sandbox or licence authorisation | |
| Law Society of British Columbia | Hayley Woodin | innovation sandbox no-action letterNo-action letter allows an online agreement platform with guided expert and document-assembly systems. | Sandbox or licence authorisation |
Arizona Judicial Branch
Law Society of British Columbia
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Sources are the regulators' and courts' own: the Federal Register and FTC matter pages, federal court opinions, the Utah Supreme Court's authorisation orders and the Office of Legal Services Innovation register, the SRA, the Law Society of Ontario and the Law Society of British Columbia, the Bundesgerichtshof. Sandbox entries are included only where the regulator's own text describes the provider as AI, chatbot or software based. Repository and schema.
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