An employment law service powered entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) goes live today, offering consumers both advice and representation.
Grapple Law, which does not employ any lawyers, also offers support with disputes with insurers, including motor, home and contents, income protection, pet and travel insurance.
It helps too with claims against airlines for flight cancellations and baggage delays.
It has spun out of Monaco Solicitors in London, which describes itself as the largest employment law specialist firm in the UK representing individuals only.
Users will pay a subscription of 20 a month for legal advice and 50 a month for representation, sending letters to an employer, and responding to them, under the Grapple Law name. In its testing phase, users have paid 10% of what they received in compensation. Early reviews online have been glowing.
Grapple Law is not a regulated law firm, unlike the first AI-only practice that launched earlier this year, Garfield.law.
Grapple founder Alex Monaco told Legal Futures that he had spoken to regulators but there seemed little point in regulating a business without lawyers. “The regulators aren’t designed to regulate software,” he said, although he might look to do it in future for “branding and marketing purposes”.
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