The Hidden Costs of Hiring the Wrong Attorney

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In today’s episode, I sit down with Ryan Newburn, founder and CEO of JuriCon.ai, an AI-powered legal tech platform helping clients find the right lawyer in seconds. Drawing from his experience as a corporate attorney and general counsel, Ryan explains how his company uses plain language and artificial intelligence to match clients with lawyers who have the exact expertise they need—saving time, money, and emotional stress. We talk about the costly mistakes people make when hiring the wrong attorney, how specialized legal work is more affordable than most realize, and how verified reviews will transform the legal industry.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer, and I'm going back in time to the business that it all got started for me in legal tech.
0:12.2	Ryan New Bern is the president and CEO of one of the most innovative legal tech companies I've seen in a long time.
0:19.8	JerryConjurycon.aI.
0:22.4	Welcome to the playbook, my friend Ryan Newburn.
0:26.3	Thank you.
0:27.0	Great to be here.
0:28.3	Well, you've created a platform.
0:29.6	I wish I was selling years ago when I had Westlaw because it was impossible to do what
0:35.6	you can do today.
0:37.3	And a lot of people, even on the show, GoFund Yourself, proved our point.
0:43.7	As I remember, a billion-dollar company CEO sitting to my left going, yeah, but they're lawyers.
0:50.3	And, you know, this understanding of the value that can be provided by Jerrycon.a.I. is exceptional.
0:59.3	How have you applied AI using plain language to find the right lawyer?
1:06.0	So you're not oversold, back in sold, lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, lied,, lied, manipulated by a lawyer.
1:12.8	Yeah, that's exactly it.
1:14.0	It's using the power of AI to take plain language to determine exactly the type of
1:19.1	lawyer somebody needs.
1:20.6	So somebody logs onto our platform, types out there, legal issue, using non-legalese,
1:25.9	plain language, and our proprietary AI figures out exactly what
1:30.0	type of lawyer you need and matches you with an ideal lawyer to solve that legal issue. Very quick,
1:35.6	very simple. Now, you like me are a lawyer. Yes, sir. It's actually trained corporate lawyer
1:42.8	working for one of the biggest and best law firms in the world.
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