Alex Monaco: Grapple and the Future of Consumer Legal Tech

Philip Young sits down with solicitor and law-tech entrepreneur Alex Monaco to explore how AI is reshaping access to justice for ordinary people. Alex traces his journey from criminal defence to founding Monaco Solicitors and explains how COVID-era chaos revealed a huge unmet need for fast, affordable legal help.

Philip and Alex discuss their shared belief that lawyers do not “own” the law and why AI is beginning to dismantle long-standing barriers to representation. Alex reflects on using Garfield to recover long-stalled debts, the importance of approachability in legal design, and why tools that are friendly, fast, and inexpensive increasingly outperform traditional firms.