Provo— SoloSuit, a legal tech startup that empowers individuals to respond to a debt collection lawsuit, today announced that it has appointed Scott Erickson as chief technology officer. As CTO, Erickson will lead the company’s technical direction, adding functionality to the product and scaling it to serve the millions of customers that need SoloSuit’s services to fight predatory debt-collection lawsuits.

“Scott brings the technological know-how needed to scale our state-by-state databases of court addresses and filing fees that help clarify the often confusing procedures associated with debt collection lawsuits,” said George Simons, SoloSuit cofounder and CEO. “In doing so, we will continue to close the justice gap for vulnerable individuals, many of whom tend to be minorities, young people and individuals earning less than $40,000 a year.”

Each year, 10 million Americans are sued for a debt, with a reported 90% of defendants losing their cases automatically – even if they didn’t owe the money – because they didn’t know how to properly respond within the specified time. Legal tech startup SoloSuit is an online resource to help individuals being sued for a debt. In about 15 minutes, SoloSuit’s free automated software, available at www.solosuit.com, guides the defendant through a series of prompts to generate a response for submission to the courts, and a fighting chance to receive a positive judgement.

“I’m excited to be in a role that allows me to expand this valuable consumer resource that I myself could have benefited from in the 2010s when I was hounded by a debt collector over a fraudulent apartment move-out fee – an experience that was never far from my mind when I helped develop SoloSuit as part of the original team of cofounders,” said Erickson. Now joining SoloSuit fulltime Erickson has his sights on making SoloSuit available to millions of others to help fight aggressive and sometimes fraudulent debt-collection lawsuits.

Erickson has more than six years of industry experience, most recently as a software development engineer at Amazon. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science in Engineering from Princeton University. During his time at Princeton, Erickson was honored to be a Kleiner Perkins Fellow.

About SoloSuit
Launched in 2018, SoloSuit is a Provo, Utah-based legal tech startup that provides debt collection defendants with an online resource to prepare a response to a debt collection lawsuit and provide filing instructions. SoloSuit is backed in part by an initial $100,000 investment from the Kleiner Perkins Fellows program. The software used by SoloSuit was initially developed by LawX, the legal design lab at BYU Law School. To learn more about how SoloSuit is helping to close the justice gap and visit www.solosuit.com.