The problem I wanted to solve

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Jon: I want to get to the germination of the idea for Lawtrades. What was the big

problem that you were setting up to solve?

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Raad: I had the idea while I was in law school. I was graduating into one of the

worst job markets in the legal industry history at the time. I wanted to get more

lawyers jobs online, and instead of doing it the traditional way of going and

working at a law firm for ten years, I wanted there to be a platform where they

can do it in a more entrepreneurial way.

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They can sign up for a website, create a profile, get access to flexible work on

the internet, get paid for practicing law, do it from wherever they wanted,

and set their own hours and rates.

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Something like that didn’t exist. It started off with the intention of helping a

bunch of independent lawyers earn an income online and then eventually we

iterated it to include more businesses that would be able to hire them and build

it out to the marketplace it is today.

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