The Ninth Circuit recently decided that the provider of a computer program that prepared bankruptcy petitions qualified as a bankruptcy petition provider.  Users of the web based program were told that they could enter in personal information and the program would make all the necessary decisions on behalf of the user.  The Ninth Circuit held that because the program made decisions on behalf of the user it counted as the petition preparer.  Since the program (nor the programmer) did not have a law license it was found guilty of practing law without a license.  Maybe the bar should start licensing computer programs?

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