North Carolina Bar Restricts the Sale of Self-Help Software
Under the guise of consumer protection, North Carolina has passed new legislation, at the direction of the North Carolina Bar, that imposes restrictions on distributing self-help legal software over the Internet. Rather than protecting consumers, this legislation is a frightened response by the North Carolina Bar to protect their lawyer's incomes from the impact of advances in Internet technology that provide new ways for people to solve their legal problems at low cost. The