Layman's Notes

This is Layman's Quarterly Update, and we are near approaching Launch we thought it would be fun to learn about the incoming app. Welcome back Laypeople, we finished our Front-end! It's alive! After many months of explaining the impact of Layman's and several mockups and pilots, we can finally show you our vision. Meet Layman's app the mobile-first, progressive web marketplace for legal education, templates, cases, and solutions: Our goal in designing our application was simply to make a complete solution for creating legal documents using AI and a complete solution for interacting with those who create these documents. In essence, a deceptively simple, but incredibly powerful "first-base" for self-filing and legal services in NYC. This week we'll be talking about the UX from the perspective of our end-users… The End-User Pathway The end user, a middle-class New Yorker facing an issue in housing, employment, benefits, or family law or just cu...

This thanksgiving Layman wants to Thank you for believing in us. View this email in your browser This Thanksgiving we're thanking you. For believing in us. It's no question that pursuing ambitious projects is mentally, physically, and spiritually challenging. Even more so for projects that hope to end social ills. Even more so for projects made by those who live the problems they seek to resolve. But in the spirit of justice, progress, and venture we do this not because it is easy, but because it is hard . LINKEDIN.COM LexLab @ UC Law San Francisco on LinkedIn: Meet Esosa Ohonba, JD, MPH—founder/CEO of Layman! Esosa received his JD… Meet Esosa Ohonba, JD, MPH—founder/CEO of Layman! Esosa received his JD from NYU School of Law and a Master's of Public Health, Population, and Family Health… Apologies for the radio silence we've been hard at work- Building the best, mobile-first platform for researching, drafting, and servicing state-level civil lawsuits fo...

-- Follow us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaymanTeam  LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/layman-ltd/  *Layman's January 2023 Update* January was a hard month to be a Black Entrepreneur. Despite meeting our development goals, and doing so in half the time of a regular startup, our company Layman ( http://www.Laymans.appwww.Laymans.app >) is struggling to get funding. Layman is a proudly Black-owned company, that comes with incredible market understanding but it also comes with VC Bias, and sadly, a few funding partnerships we were excited about in January fell through. To quote Marlon Nichols, the co-founder and managing general partner of MaC Venture Capital, diverse businesses tend to take the brunt of VC slowdowns because firms typically resort to the status quo in times of economic uncertainty, "We've always invested in white men and that's what we're going to do right now. That's where we're comfortable. That's where...