For decades, rising income inequality has significantly harmed and bottlenecked families’ interests by depriving them of the ability to pursue legal claims, and consequently rely on our judicial system to receive adequate legal remedies.
According to a recent National Government survey, over 70% of low-income households in the US have been involved in legal disputes concerning: family law, eviction cases, and employment law. Quite shockingly, over 80% of those cases reported that they did not feel that they had an adequate level of legal representation during their disputes.
Whereas some countries- like the US, the UK, and all of the EU member states, in theory have established laws that mandate that all citizens need to be adequately represented in trial, this is seldom the case.
For one, not every dispute even goes to trial- the vast majority of them do not, and even when they do, a court-appointed lawyer is commonly significantly less qualified than those found in global, industry-leading firms.
This means that even in the countries that do provide a ‘free’ alternative to the individuals that cannot afford to finance their own legal representation, ‘’equal access to justice’’ is rarely acquired, as the relative expertise and knowledge of a person’s lawyer can go a long way in influencing a judge’s final decision.
Of course, the aforementioned free alternative is not even guaranteed in the majority of countries, a point that has recently been overturned by the Brazillian National Council of Justice (CNJ) , after a petition from the prominent entrepreneur and current law student. Joilson Melo.
His point was simple; given that Brazillian citizens were required to hire an attorney in order to issue claims in Special Courts, the majority of low-income individuals would seldom seek any sort of ramifications from the legal sector, as they would find it too ‘’uncertain’’ and ‘’costly’’.
Consequently, the rule was directly contradictory to the notion of ‘’equal justice to all’’, a point that was duly heard and agreed upon by the CNJ recently, marking a revolutionary win for the citizens of Brazil.
Joilson Melo: Life Before Law
Before he decided to become a law student at Fasip Faculty in the city of Sinop (Mato Grosso), Joilson Melo had already experienced quite a fascinating life- overcoming a significant degree of hurdles along the way.
Born into a low-income household himself, Joilson moved to the interior of Mato Grosso at the age of nine with his family in order to seek a more prosperous and sustainable life.
At just twelve years of age, he purchased his very own computer, and began individually learning a plethora of different programming languages (including Html, Mysql, PHP, and JavaScript. This actually enabled him to start creating and selling his own software programs for a few dollars using the Google Adsense program just two years later.
When he was sixteen years old, Joilson was hired by a massive software company called Zero9 do Brasil Servicos Digitais Ltda, and eventually formed a crucial partnership with them that allowed him to proliferate his total income and make his first-ever ‘’fortune’’.
This fortune allowed him to purchase his farm in the interior of Mato Grosso roughly six years ago (2015), an industry in which he also reaped significant monetary benefits as a result of his unrivaled work ethic, professional curiosity, and extraordinarily high IQ.
In 2019, Joilson decided to segue into yet another highly competitive field, and begin his studies as a law undergraduate. Within his first two semesters, he began to understand a variety of problems that were viscerally entrenched within the Brazillian legal sector.
His aforementioned legal claim and victory over the Brazillian National Council of Justice happened before he even graduated from his University- another testament to his exceptionally high expertise and legal knowledge.
Final Take: An Exciting Future
Overall, Joilson Melo’s accomplishments are indubitably impressive; his ‘’self-made’’ status and relentless work ethic have (rightfully) inspired a prolific amount of individuals in Brazil that seek to better their own and their families lives, and propelled his nation-wide popularity significantly.
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