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Can you represent yourself in court?
IT Just got a whole lot easier
Dr. Sonja Ebron Co-founder and CEO of Courtroom5, a company that makes an automated legal toolbox that helps people represent themselves in court.
Sonja has one of the amazing backgrounds, engineering academia, a repeat entrepreneur, but it took a challenging experience of our own with the legal system to unleash your mission and passion for the startup life. She has a strong conviction that fairness and the justice system shouldn’t depend on inequitable access to knowledge or resources and our conversation. She talked about the allure of engineering doing a startup in Durham, North Carolina, and so much more.
Sonja has a great story. Be sure to listen in.
“We’re dealing with a broken business model in the legal profession.”
~ Sonja Ebron
In this episode Sonja and Dan discussed:
- growing up in Durham NC
- The call to engineering
- The career arc between academia and entrepreneurship
- Why the legal system can feel rigged
- How African Americans are, by necessity, innovative and entrepreneurial
“ I am always trying to find a way to do things simpler.”
~ Sonja Ebron
MORE on sonja and courtroom5
Sonja:
linkedin.com/in/sonjaebron
twitter.com/SonjaEbron
Courtroom5:
courtroom5.com
instagram.com/courtroom5legal
twitter.com/courtroom5legal
linkedin.com/company/courtroom5
“The average cost of a lawyer is $300 [per hour].
Right now, the average American makes a 10th of that.”
~ Sonja Ebron