CrowdDefend Launches Crowdfunding Platform for the Legal Space

Furthermore, since financing can be the key to a successful lawsuit, parties with outsized resources can come into a legal dispute with an unfair advantage. In more politically charged cases, special interest can exert its influence through backdoor financial support.

"CrowdDefend's mission is to even the playing field for ordinary citizens by giving them the tools to share their stories and raise funds from a community of legal advocates," says founder and CEO Hiraa Khan. Hiraa, who was formerly on the Patent Licensing and Acquisition team at Google Inc., says CrowdDefend is inspired, among other things, by the three years she spent on the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California. "At CrowdDefend we believe that promoting access to justice is a collective responsibility. Through our platform we hope to not only increase access to the courts, but also create more awareness about the justice gap in this country."