Students loans are a crisis for Law Students and one of the reasons for far too many underserviced communities. High tuition affects access to law school, but it also affects the public’s access to legal services. Middle-class students who don’t receive financial aid finance their education primarily through commercial loans, graduating well over $100,000 in debt. Probably whatever they can to mak
e their payments. What's even more sad is that far too many law students cannot find a job in what may be an archaic, exploitive, and traditional job market. In 2016, three Millennials got together and decided that this needs to stop: the debt and the traditional career post graduation, and so they came up with DAABA™
DAABA™ is a mobile app that allows users to connect with Legal Services Providers (“LSPs”) to obtain legal services, answer questions, and/or instantly obtain advice anywhere/anytime. LSPs include Law Students, Paralegals, and licensed Lawyers. DAABA™’s main goals are to:
-Connect everyone in the world with the LSPs of their choice and digitalize the Law Practice.
-Empower Law students by giving them the opportunity to gain work experience and earn money as soon as they enroll in a Law School to help them pay for their student debt as early as possible.
-Offer Law Students the opportunity to create an alternative digital career post-graduation. With DAABA™, you may have your own digital office and may build your own brand from Day 1. The days where you need to have a physical practice or join a firm are long gone.
-Allow established and currently practicing lawyers and paralegals to have the opportunity to gain more independence and access an unexplored digital clientele base.
-And most importantly, empower the general public by giving them access to a vast variety of legal services providers from students, to paralegals, to licensed lawyers, and allowing them to select the most adequate and competitive offer. By offering a wider range of suppliers, people may be able to afford legal services and it may no longer be a luxury to get legal assistance. This is DAABA™’s first release, with its imperfections of course, but with your feedback, we will continuously make it better release after release with a vision to develop a hybrid platform in the future that will use both humans and Artificial Intelligence to provide affordable, automated, and customized legal services. Today more than ever, access to justice should not be a luxury, it should be easy, and it should be instant.