Ep 014: DoNotPay Founder Joshua Browder On Replacing Lawyers with Bots

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At just 17 years old,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-browder-b0b573116"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Joshua Browder</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">made international news when he created</span> <a href="https://www.donotpay.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">DoNotPay</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a chatbot that helped appeal parking tickets, reportedly saving motorists in the U.S. and UK millions of dollars. Now 21, he has just released a series of apps designed to help consumers solve common legal problems without the help of a lawyer -- including one to file small claims lawsuits in any U.S. jurisdiction.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of LawNext, host Bob Ambrogi catches up with Browder during the recent Clio Cloud Conference, where they discuss the genesis of DoNotPay, the latest round of apps, and Browder’s dream of enabling robots and technology to help people with most of their common legal problems.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you’re a normal person who’s not accused of murder, who doesn’t need to be in the Supreme Court, I don’t want you to even have to interact with a lawyer,” Browder says. “ … There’s no reason why, if your landlord keeps your security deposit, it should be so complicated to get justice. So everything that a consumer would want from the legal system, I want to provide for free.”</span></p> <p><strong><em>Comment on this show:</em></strong> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Record a voice comment on your mobile phone and send it to</span></em> <a href= "mailto:info@lawnext.com"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">info@lawnext.com</span></em></a><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p>