About — Manso

Why we exist

One quest.

We’re driven by one quest: make the practice of litigation as streamlined as the best available technology allows, so lawyers spend their time perfecting the skills that actually require a lawyer, and so cases get decided on what they should be decided on, as closely as that’s possible.

Not because someone missed something. Not a deadline miscounted, a citation nobody checked, a filing done wrong for want of time rather than skill.

Anyone who has practised knows how it happens. The rules are in one book, the evidence rules in another, the diary in a third, and the matter file in a box on the floor. The hearing is at nine, the draft is due at four, and the reply period started running the day the other side served, whether anyone wrote it down or not. None of that is advocacy. All of it can decide a case.

Most of what separates a good outcome from a bad one has nothing to do with the merits of a case, and everything to do with the administrative weight lawyers carry alongside it. That weight falls hardest on the lawyers with the least support: the new call without a senior down the corridor, the sole practitioner who is also the clerk, the diary and the messenger.

Everything we build exists to carry that weight instead, so the argument wins or loses on its own terms.

The weight we carry

So you can carry the argument.

What Manso takes on

The count. Every deadline worked out from the rule that sets it, and put in your calendar.
The rule. Every procedural and evidential answer cited to its source, or an honest “I can’t cite that”.
The check. Drafts tested against the rules and the Evidence Act before they are filed, with anything uncertain flagged, never waved through.
The format. Court documents back as Word files, laid out for the court they’re going to.
The file. Every document in the matter kept in order, in your own Drive.

What that leaves for you

Building the theory of the case.
Preparing the witness, and the cross-examination.
Standing up in court with the answer already in hand.
Advising the client on what the outcome means.
The judgment calls no software should make for you.

Evans Selasi Adika, Esq. Founder

Called to the Bar in the United States, and later in Ghana.

Where it started

One lawyer’s move across two systems.

Manso was born out of our founder’s own transition from litigation in the United States to practice in Ghana.

In the US, he had practised with the procedure around him built into the tools he used every day. Coming home meant a different rule book, different timelines and a different way of keeping track of it all, and learning it at the same time as practising it, with no margin for a miscounted day.

So he built what he needed: a way to find the rule quickly, count the time correctly and keep every matter in order. It worked. Manso is that solution, expanded for every litigator facing the same weight, whether they are newly called, changing jurisdictions, or simply carrying more matters than one person should.

“Law schools teach the rules well. They fail at the transition into practising them.”Evans Selasi Adika, Esq., Founder

The team

Litigators, AI scholars and engineers.

The people who built the idea into a product.

Litigators

Trial lawyers who have been on teams that have won millions of dollars in verdicts. They know where cases are lost, because they have seen it happen.

AI scholars

Professors in artificial intelligence, who make sure every answer is grounded in the rule it cites and that the system says so when it can’t be sure.

Engineers

Some of the best engineering minds, building for the realities of practice: a courtroom with poor signal, a phone between hearings, and data that must stay private.

What we hold to

Four commitments.

Cite it, or say so.

Every answer names the rule it comes from, or tells you it can’t.

Flag, never guess.

Anything Manso can’t verify is surfaced for your judgment, not decided for you.

Nothing retained.

What you send is discarded when the task is done.

Compliant by design.

Built to meet your obligations to the Bar and data protection, privacy and other applicable law, including Ghana’s Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843).

10% of our profits goes back into the community.

It funds the Moot Court & Mock Trial Competition, a women’s football team tied to education, and a women’s shelter.

Our community work

Cases should be decided on the merits.