About Mayberry Berk

Most law firm "about" pages talk about awards and decades of experience. Ours is going to be more honest about what's different about how we work.

What we do

We represent Californians in five overlapping consumer-protection areas: robocalls and unwanted texts (the TCPA), secret website tracking and recording (CIPA), wrong information on credit reports and background checks (FCRA and CCRAA), debt collectors who won't leave you alone (the Rosenthal Act), and lemon vehicles (Song-Beverly).

These are laws designed to give consumers tools they couldn't reasonably bring on their own. The harm to any one person is small, but it adds up across many victims. The laws make the other side pay our fees if we win, and they set damages by statute so consumers don't have to prove every dollar of injury.

Why we built it

There's a structural mismatch in California consumer-protection practice. The volume of real cases is enormous. Millions of Californians have situations they don't know they could push back on, every year. The economics of representing each one individually are hard, because the per-case work involved (initial screening, drafting, checking citations, tracking status) doesn't always justify what's recovered on contingency.

AI tools change that math. Not by replacing lawyers (that's the mistake that got DoNotPay, an AI startup that pitched itself as a "robot lawyer," sued by the FTC in 2024) but by handling the behind-the-scenes work that doesn't need a lawyer's judgment. Initial intake. First-pass document drafting. Tracking what's owed and when across an active case. Verifying that every citation in every filing actually exists, before it goes anywhere near a court.

The lawyer's job becomes what it always should have been: judgment, strategy, and signing things you've actually read.

How we're structured

California's rules require law firms to be owned by lawyers (AB 931). To bring outside investment into the technology layer, we operate as two entities:

• The PC (a California "professional corporation"). This is the law firm. It handles all attorney work, holds the client trust account, and signs every client agreement.
• The MSO (a "management services organization"). This is the technology and operations company. It builds and runs the tools the PC uses, and licenses them to the PC under a flat-fee services agreement.

This is a standard structure for AI-native firms in places with rules against non-lawyer ownership of law firms. It keeps the line between legal work and technology work clean.

What that means for clients

Practically, three things:

1. You're hiring a real California-licensed lawyer. The agreement, the advice, and the signatures all come from the PC. The MSO never touches client files.
2. You benefit from operational scale. Faster screening (under three minutes for most robocall situations through CallCheck), faster drafting once a case is accepted, and proactive status updates that don't depend on someone manually checking in on you.
3. You don't pay unless we recover. Most consumer-protection laws make the other side pay our fees if we win. Combined with our contingency model, that usually means no out-of-pocket cost to you.

The team

[Founder name TODO], California Bar No. [TBD], leads the PC. Background in privacy and consumer-protection litigation. [Replace with real bio when ready.]

What's next

We're at the start of this. The infrastructure works; we're matching it with the right cases. If you have a situation that fits one of our areas, the fastest route is the relevant tool (we have CallCheck for robocalls now; others are coming) or the contact form.

If you're a California-licensed attorney curious about how the behind-the-scenes side works, get in touch. We're not hiring through traditional channels yet, but interesting conversations matter.