Tennessee Plans to Regulate Online Legal Software Publishers
How is it that a publisher that sells or distributes online legal software for consumers is now considered the "practice of law" in the State of Tennessee?
Under a new regulatory scheme to be adopted by the Tennessee legislature, the publisher of a website that offers interactive legal forms to consumers will be considered the practice of law, unless the publisher complies with the requirements of the proposed statute.
Non-compliance means the publisher is "subject to pe