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There is a legal platform that receives advertising fees and introduces lawyers to clients.
However, I was accused by a lawyer group for violating the law of this platform.
There have already been several similar accusations, and reporter Hong Young-jae reported on what was going on.
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is an advertisement for a domestic legal platform that helps you find a lawyer.
You can easily see such advertisements all over the legal town in Seocho-dong, Seoul.
It seems to be helpful to both the client and the lawyer, but a domestic lawyer group has accused the platform company.
'Rotalk' is the largest legal platform in Korea with about 4,000 lawyers, and lawyers' organizations claim that they are violating the Lawyers Act.
You shouldn't have an attorney for an economic price, but the advertising costs you receive after exposing your attorney are the same as economic costs.
[Cho Jung-hee/Spokesman of the Seoul Bar Association: We are mediating and introducing certain lawyers by exposing them on the screen immediately...
.] In
this regard, Rotalk is not in the position that it is not a mediation because it is a structure in which the user selects an attorney by looking at the advertisement.
[Jeong Jae-seong/Rotalk Vice President: I have never received a single KRW brokerage fee in compliance with the Lawyer Act.
Rotok's only source of sales is a lawyer's monthly advertisement...
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'Rotalk''s AI sentence prediction service is also an issue.
In response to the lawyers' group's claim that it is violating the current law that allowed only lawyers to provide legal advice, Rotok is merely reprocessing the public judgment to provide information.
Earlier, two charges against legal platforms were unprodicted.
Nevertheless, there are many analyzes that the accusation again came as a battle for leadership in the fierce legal services market.
(Video coverage: Kim Se-kyung and Lee Chan-soo, video editing: So Ji-hye, CG: Jung Hyun-jung)