Manso started with a simple observation from years of litigation practice: lawyers forget things. Their rule book, sometimes. Their wig, occasionally. Never their phone.
Our founder was first called to the Bar in the United States, then, nine years later, called to the Bar in Ghana as well — dual-qualified, with years of trial practice and in-house counsel work behind him before returning home.
He isn’t in active litigation practice today; his focus now is founder-friendly transactional work, reflecting the fact that he’s built several companies of his own along the way. Manso is the product of that earlier courtroom experience — built to solve the specific, narrow problem that actually derails new litigators, not to be a general-purpose legal tool.
Of everything you carry through professional law school — the casebooks, the treatises, the textbooks stacked on every substantive subject — almost none of it walks into court with you. Only the rules book does. And even that gets left behind sometimes; lawyers forget their rule book, occasionally even their wig, on the way to a hearing. Nobody forgets their phone.
Substantive legal research matters, and Manso doesn’t pretend otherwise — it’s why we built a way to bring your own research account in rather than compete with it. But research was never the reason a new lawyer’s first year goes wrong. A missed filing window is. A rule applied under pressure for the first time, incorrectly, is. That’s the actual hard part of becoming a lawyer, and it’s the part we built Manso to solve first — on the one device that’s always in your pocket, not the one book you might have left on your desk.
“Law schools teach the rules well. They fail at the transition into practicing it.”EVANS SELASI ADIKA, ESQ. — FOUNDER
