In this reprint from Startup Savant, Courtroom5’s founders share how their own experiences representing themselves in court inspired them to launch a platform for others facing the same challenge. The story highlights how Courtroom5 is using legal tech to help people without lawyers navigate the civil justice system.
To that end, Courtroom5 helps people file the right legal documents at the right time. It also offers services like records management, an intelligent chatbot that tracks your progress and helps move your case along, video-based training on a variety of subjects, explanations of the elements of your case (i.e. what you have to prove in court), legal research assistance, and even document preparation.
Of course, there are some things that only a lawyer can handle. But hiring a lawyer just for those more complex tasks is a whole lot cheaper than hiring one for the entire case. Courtroom5 also candidly admits that its service works best for cases in which “the wheels of justice turn slowly,” such as debt collection, foreclosure, probate, divorce, and personal injury matters. It doesn’t work as well for matters like evictions, small claims, traffic tickets, wills and trusts, and restraining orders.
