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Company

# Reengineering the justice system.

The law shouldn't only work for people who can afford it. Briefcase exists to put private, intelligent legal infrastructure in everyone's hands.

Mission, category, outcome

## Legal services made people clients. Personal Law gives people legal autonomy.

Legal Empowerment is why the company exists. Personal Law is the market it is creating. Legal Autonomy is what changes for the person.

1. Mission

   Legal Empowerment

   Why the company exists.

2. Category

   Personal Law

   The market being created.

3. Outcome

   Legal Autonomy

   The person gains informed control, with professional judgment available by choice.

4. Incumbent

   Legal Services

   The model the market has been organized around.

Powerful institutions and wealthy families do not wait for a lawsuit, transaction, incapacity, or loss to begin organizing their legal lives. They maintain agreements, records, policies, decision rights, professional relationships, institutional memory, and response plans before the moment of consequence. Everyone deserves that foundation.

What we believe

## The law is complicated. Your ability to participate in it shouldn't be.

1. A serious tool, on the side of the person holding it.

2. Human-first. Technology-amplified.

3. Clarity is a form of justice.

4. Trust is the one advantage that can't be bought, rushed, or copied. And everything else Briefcase builds is an instrument for earning it.

Our three commitments to you

1. 01

   Understand the situation.

2. 02

   You remain in control.

3. 03

   Always have a path forward.

Everything the company builds is measured against them.

> The access-to-justice crisis is bigger than law and lawyers. It is a crisis of exclusion and inequality.

Rebecca L. Sandefur

Access to What?, Daedalus, 2019

The company

## Briefcase Legal Empowerment, Inc.

Briefcase is a Personal Law platform. It gives every person the legal foundation institutions and wealthy families have always had.

- Form

  A Delaware Public Benefit Corporation

- Headquarters

  Nashville, TN

- Founder

  Tim Wickstrom, Founder & Chief Executive Officer. 4x founder. He expected a niche. He found millions. He built the platform he needed. Now he is building the category millions need.

- Category

  Personal Law, created and led by Briefcase.

Briefcase is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. Its public benefit is written into the corporate charter, and directors balance it alongside stockholder interests and the interests of those materially affected by the company's conduct.

The charter commits the company to expand legal literacy and access to justice through technology, education, and the responsible, ethical use of AI. The governance model establishes an independent, non-equity Legal and Ethics Advisory Board with authority to review where the advice boundary is drawn and to publish a dissent when it disagrees. Mission reporting runs at least as often as the biennial statement a public benefit corporation owes its stockholders. A mission bound in law is more credible to courts, regulators, professionals, and the people it serves than a mission asserted in marketing.

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Pilots start as early as October 1, 2026.