Joshua Browder rents the same house in Palo Alto, California, as the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once did STEPHEN LAMJoshua Browder says his inbox is bursting with hate mail from lawyers, which seems a bit unfair as the London-born Stanford University student is nothing if not likeable and polite. On the other hand, Browder, 20, has unequivocally stated his desire to undermine the core business model of the legal profession. For Browder, who many will view as a precocious upstart, the model of highly trained and professionally qualified human beings giving considered legal advice — and charging their clients by the hour for the privilege — is as outmoded as the steam railway engine. The problem for the profession is that Browder does not just talk a good game around disrupting traditional legal working practices. He is already putting theory into action.

Source: The Times October 18, 2017 23:03 UTC