Going from the "No" Team to the Know Team: Why being a business partner creates better opportunities to lead, collaborate, innovate and add meaningful value to your organization
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Zinhle Novazi / PANEL: Digital disruption: Why legal firms need to start thinking of themselves as an online business
Zinhle Novazi, Consultant, Tabacks Attorneys and Corporate Law Advisors
Zinhle is a second-year Candidate Legal Practitioner, at Tabacks & Associates and is part of the Data Privacy and Tax teams in the Corporate Commercial Law Department. She is also an Anchor on the Heavy Chef Show, an entrepreneurial thought leader and a public speaker. She also identifies as a...
Themba Mahleka / PANEL: Digital disruption: Why legal firms need to start thinking of themselves as an online business
Themba Mahleka, Innovating Justice Agent, Hague Institute for Innovation of Law
Themba Mahleka is qualified as an attorney and currently a legal consultant specialising in commercial law. Themba is passionate about legal innovation as he believes this has great potential to improve legal service delivery. As such, Themba is also the regional (Southern Africa) Innovating...
Kristi Erasmus / PANEL: Digital disruption: Why legal firms need to start thinking of themselves as an online business
Kristi Erasmus, Head of Futures Law Faculty, The Futures Law Faculty
Kristi is an admitted Attorney, qualified futurist and Head of the Futures Law Faculty. Passionate about the law and evoking that emotion in others, striving to shape the legal minds of tomorrow, Kristi curates bespoke short online refresher law courses and runs an accredited Paralegal Course and...
Soretha Venter / PANEL: Digital disruption: Why legal firms need to start thinking of themselves as an online business
Soretha Venter, Project Consultant, Calibrics
CALIBRICS is a female-owned and operated consultancy combining extensive experience in fields ranging from Business Development & Governance to Project Development & Management. CALIBRICS aims to make human rights real and change the way the world does business, through visionary approaches ...
Bongani Khanyile / Securing a seat at the table : Lessons for smaller firms
Bongani Khanyile is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and was duly admitted in 2014. He has right of appearance and appears in Labour Courts, High Courts and Magistrates Courts. He graduated at the University of Johannesburg with an LLB degree and further obtained a...
Vulimile Gumede / Panel: How to become a client centric practice
Vilimile is one of three Candidate Legal Practitioners at Snail Attorneys @ Law Inc. He spends the larger amount of his time with the firm drafting Heads and preparing Counsels’ briefs for civil lawsuits. His legal experience boasts matters in (the defense of) Banking Litigation, land...
Tendai Jangara / Panel: How to become a client centric practice
Tendai Jangara, Director, Avidor Group
Tendai is a legal professional with a broad range of skills and experience in general advisory, forensics and emerging technologies. Building on the foundation of her post-graduate studies, she has developed expertise in privacy and data protection with a focused interest in cloud computing. She...
Tereza Correia / Panel: How to become a client centric practice
With passion and expertise for digital marketing and corporate communication, Tereza has been instrumental in helping clients activate their brand’s voice and drive engagement across global markets to create lasting industry differentiation. Tereza works predominantly with Legal brands, spanning...
Thato Mashishi / Due Diligence Incorporating AI – The Pros and Cons
Thato Mashishi is an admitted attorney of the High Court in South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the North-West University, a Master of Laws in Corporate Law from the University of Pretoria and he is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Taxation with the University of the...
Deborah Tumbo / LEGAL TOWN HALL
Deborah Tumbo, Executive Chairwoman, Tumbo Scott
Deborah Mutemwa is the director and cofounder of an all-black, female- and youth-owned corporate and commercial legal consultancy which provides legal services to companies and individuals with a particular focus on small, medium and micro enterprises.After completing her LLB at the University of...
Danny Myburgh / LEGAL TOWN HALL
Danny Myburgh, Managing Director, Cyanre the Digital Forensic Lab & LexTrado EDS
Danny Myburgh is the Managing Director Lextrado a firm that specialise in litigation support services for legal firms in South Africa, such as electronic discovery, virtual data room and electronic case management. He also holds Directorships at other firms within the Digital Forensic and Incident...
Nicolene Schoeman-Louw / LEGAL TOWN HALL
Nicolene Schoeman-Louw, Founder And Managing Director, Schoemanlaw
Mrs Nicolene Schoeman – Louw founded SchoemanLaw Inc in 2007, aged 24, and is now the Managing Director of the firm. SchoemanLaw Inc is an award-winning law firm based in Cape Town. Nicolene is an admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, Conveyancer, Notary Public and Mediator; with a...
Nikki Hammond / Going from the "No" Team to the Know Team: Why being a business partner creates better opportunities to lead, collaborate, innovate and add meaningful value to your organization
Nikki Hammond, Head Of Legal, 2U
Nikki Hammond is the Head of Legal for a multinational Edtech company based in Cape Town. Prior to moving into an in-house role, Nikki practiced as a corporate commercial attorney at a boutique law firm based in Cape Town. Nikki is an admitted attorney of the High Court with several years of...
Thato Mashishi / Panel: The future lawyer: Upgrading your skills for a tech-driven future
Thato Mashishi is an admitted attorney of the High Court in South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from the North-West University, a Master of Laws in Corporate Law from the University of Pretoria and he is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Taxation with the University of the...
Fiorella Noriega Del Valle / Panel: The future lawyer: Upgrading your skills for a tech-driven future
Fiorella Noriega Del Valle, Senior Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Fiorella began her career at a local Johannesburg firm in January 2013 and joined Herbert Smith Freehills in March 2018. She is an admitted attorney and notary of the High Court of South Africa. Fiorella is fluent in English and Spanish, holds an Advanced Certificate in International Arbitration...
Lebogang George / Panel: The future lawyer: Upgrading your skills for a tech-driven future
Lebogang George, Legal Consultant, Tumbo Scott
Lebogang George is a legal consultant with a specialty in Information, Communications and Technology Law (ICT), Information Technology Governance as well as Data Protection and Privacy Law. Her experience in Data Protection and Privacy Law spans across South Africa and the European Union and has...
Jennifer Stoler / Panel: The future lawyer: Upgrading your skills for a tech-driven future
Jennifer Stoler, Chief Executive Officer And Founder, IMPASSION – TRANSCEND YOURSELF
Jennifer Stoler is the CEO and Founder of IMPASSION – TRANSCEND YOURSELF, a venture inspired and ignited by passion and purpose. Jennifer is an admitted Attorney and Notary, Speaker, Podcaster, Legal Easer, Passion Ignitor and Driver of Change. Jennifer’s expertise was deeply rooted in Family Law...
Natalie Macdonald-Spence / Panel: The future lawyer: Upgrading your skills for a tech-driven future
Natalie Macdonald-Spence, Director, Spence Law
Natalie is the founding director of Spence Attorneys, Notaries & Conveyancers, a Cape Town-based law firm. She is the co-founder of the Cape Town Legal Practitioners Association and serves on a few boards in an advisory capacity. She is excited to see how technology can play a part in...
Eitan Stern / How to run an innovative legal practice in this digital age
Eitan Stern, Lawyer, Legalese
Eitan Stern is the founder and director of Legalese. He is a practising attorney with a background in commercial and entertainment law and tech entrepreneurship. Eitan has worked with sectors across the board, from creative, advertising and media, to educational, non-profit and technology...
Malcolm Pearson / Practical LegalTech on a tight budget
Malcolm Pearson, Manager, Tech4Law
Technology, marketing and business management are topics most often ignored and/or feared by lawyers, who rather focus on their core business of practicing law. Malcolm Pearson, a husband, father and business owner, gained extensive knowledge through his technology, software and marketing career in ...
Zinhle Novazi / Panel: Traditional law not so traditional anymore
Zinhle Novazi, Consultant, Tabacks Attorneys and Corporate Law Advisors
Zinhle is a second-year Candidate Legal Practitioner, at Tabacks & Associates and is part of the Data Privacy and Tax teams in the Corporate Commercial Law Department. She is also an Anchor on the Heavy Chef Show, an entrepreneurial thought leader and a public speaker. She also identifies as a...
Lebogang George / Panel: Traditional law not so traditional anymore
Lebogang George, Legal Consultant, Tumbo Scott
Lebogang George is a legal consultant with a specialty in Information, Communications and Technology Law (ICT), Information Technology Governance as well as Data Protection and Privacy Law. Her experience in Data Protection and Privacy Law spans across South Africa and the European Union and has...
Tereza Correia / Panel: Traditional law not so traditional anymore
With passion and expertise for digital marketing and corporate communication, Tereza has been instrumental in helping clients activate their brand’s voice and drive engagement across global markets to create lasting industry differentiation. Tereza works predominantly with Legal brands, spanning...
Rebotile Bopape / Panel: Traditional law not so traditional anymore
Rebotile Bopape, General Manager Legal: Southern Africa Region, MultiChoice
Rebotile Bopape started her legal career as a Candidate Attorney at Webber Wentzel Attorneys in 2003. She worked in the Telecommunications and Broadcasting Department and practiced as an expert in telecommunications, broadcasting and entertainment law.In line with her career plans, she moved to a...
Bongani Khanyile / Panel: Cybersecurity essential for the digital age
Bongani Khanyile is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa and was duly admitted in 2014. He has right of appearance and appears in Labour Courts, High Courts and Magistrates Courts. He graduated at the University of Johannesburg with an LLB degree and further obtained a...
Lebogang George / Panel: Cybersecurity essential for the digital age
Lebogang George, Legal Consultant, Tumbo Scott
Lebogang George is a legal consultant with a specialty in Information, Communications and Technology Law (ICT), Information Technology Governance as well as Data Protection and Privacy Law. Her experience in Data Protection and Privacy Law spans across South Africa and the European Union and has...
Jannes Du Plooy / Bitcoin, blockchain & AI: How to become a tech savvy lawyer
Jannes Du Plooy, Director And Founder, Digital U
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the different services industries. Skilled in identifying/creating opportunities, converting these opportunities into business, Entrepreneurship; Ability to identify a problem and to come up with an innovative solution to ...
Sasha Beharilal / Can Privacy & Marketing Coexist? Unpacking the implications
Sasha is a technology, media and telecoms (TMT) lawyer based in Cape Town. She kicked-off her career at PPM Attorneys, a specialist TMT law firm in Johannesburg where she worked on regulatory and compliance matters, focusing predominantly on privacy and telecommunications. During this time, she...
Soretha Venter / PANEL: Scalable new world ideas to nurturing future legal talent
Soretha Venter, Project Consultant, Calibrics
CALIBRICS is a female-owned and operated consultancy combining extensive experience in fields ranging from Business Development & Governance to Project Development & Management. CALIBRICS aims to make human rights real and change the way the world does business, through visionary approaches ...
Lydia Le Roux / PANEL: Scalable new world ideas to nurturing future legal talent
Lydia Le Roux, Senior Legal Advisor, Interwaste (Pty) Ltd
Lydia is a seasoned legal professional (currently on the non-practicing roll of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces) with extensive experience providing strategic legal advice and recommending the appropriate course of action for a diverse client portfolio. Her fields of expertise are...
Nikki Hammond / PANEL: Scalable new world ideas to nurturing future legal talent
Nikki Hammond, Head Of Legal, 2U
Nikki Hammond is the Head of Legal for a multinational Edtech company based in Cape Town. Prior to moving into an in-house role, Nikki practiced as a corporate commercial attorney at a boutique law firm based in Cape Town. Nikki is an admitted attorney of the High Court with several years of...
Naomi Thompson / PANEL: Scalable new world ideas to nurturing future legal talent
Naomi Thompson, Vice President - Legal Solutions, Exigent
Naomi ThompsonVice President | Legal Services | Strategy Execution & Implementation | Attorney | SpeakerNaomi Thompson is an attorney with legal and business experience. Before joining Exigent as Vice President – Legal Solutions she served as the Chief of Staff for the Group COO of a Pan...
Natasha Jardine / PANEL: Scalable new world ideas to nurturing future legal talent
Natasha Jardine, Partner, HJW
Natasha qualifies as an attorney in 2010 and as a conveyancer in 2011. With extensive collections experience she has represented major financial service providers and retailers focusing on banking law, litigation and collection. Other experience includes administration of decreased...
Willie Pienaar / The role of the platform economy in dispute resolution
Willie Pienaar, Co-Founder And Chief Executive Officer, NuvaLaw
Although Willie has extensive experience in the formal legal sphere as an advocate of the Cape Bar, he considers himself a ‘reformed lawyer’. Willie was a founding member of the Equillore Group, which specialises in dispute settlement through the use of ADR. During his time there he held both the...
Ivan Mugabi / LEGAL Town Hall
Ivan Mugabi, Lecturer, Sonic Furniture Construction and Technical
Ivan K Mugabi is a lawyer by professional background. I have previously worked as an online legal manager for Wales Global Limited in Wales, Iam currently based in Uganda where I undertake work as an online legal manager with Sonic Furniture Construction and Technical Services. I also a full time...
Collen is the Founder & CEO of Banchi Tech Pty Ltd. Through his company he also has interests in tech start-ups such as WiKnect Africa, LawKnect and LyfBit. He has been actively involved in entrepreneurship and Innovation space dating back to 2012 when he formed part of developer’s team who...
Lydia Le Roux / The race to GDPR compliance: tips for smaller firms
Lydia Le Roux, Senior Legal Advisor, Interwaste (Pty) Ltd
Lydia is a seasoned legal professional (currently on the non-practicing roll of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces) with extensive experience providing strategic legal advice and recommending the appropriate course of action for a diverse client portfolio. Her fields of expertise are...
Lebogang George / Panel: Cyber attack’s - how to avoid them when integrating new tech
Lebogang George, Legal Consultant, Tumbo Scott
Lebogang George is a legal consultant with a specialty in Information, Communications and Technology Law (ICT), Information Technology Governance as well as Data Protection and Privacy Law. Her experience in Data Protection and Privacy Law spans across South Africa and the European Union and has...
Collen Mphabantshi / Panel: Cyber attack’s - how to avoid them when integrating new tech
Collen is the Founder & CEO of Banchi Tech Pty Ltd. Through his company he also has interests in tech start-ups such as WiKnect Africa, LawKnect and LyfBit. He has been actively involved in entrepreneurship and Innovation space dating back to 2012 when he formed part of developer’s team who...
Warren Hero / Using cloud service to up security protocols and support business continuity planning
Warren Hero, Chief Information Officer, Webber Wentzel
Warren Hero, appointed previously as Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, believes in the importance of doing good while doing good business. And the core belief statement: We believe that working together changes lives! He is currently engaged at Webber Wentzel as CIO and is tasked with digital ...
Zinhle Novazi / Data compliance guidelines for lawyers
Zinhle Novazi, Consultant, Tabacks Attorneys and Corporate Law Advisors
Zinhle is a second-year Candidate Legal Practitioner, at Tabacks & Associates and is part of the Data Privacy and Tax teams in the Corporate Commercial Law Department. She is also an Anchor on the Heavy Chef Show, an entrepreneurial thought leader and a public speaker. She also identifies as a...
Zinhle Novazi / Panel: Best practice when it comes to digital content, social media and UX
Zinhle Novazi, Consultant, Tabacks Attorneys and Corporate Law Advisors
Zinhle is a second-year Candidate Legal Practitioner, at Tabacks & Associates and is part of the Data Privacy and Tax teams in the Corporate Commercial Law Department. She is also an Anchor on the Heavy Chef Show, an entrepreneurial thought leader and a public speaker. She also identifies as a...
Lorna Kalimashe / Panel: Best practice when it comes to digital content, social media and UX
Lorna Kalimashe, Social Media Marketer, Loolacreative
Lorna Kalimashe is an experienced Social & Digital Media specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the magazine, retail and tourism industry. Lorna's career started in the magazine industry at Highbury Media before moving into the social & digital space which landed her a...
Deon Petersen / Panel: Best practice when it comes to digital content, social media and UX
Deon Petersen, Head Of Digital Design And Creative Director, Superbalist
Experienced creative with over 10 years experience working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in graphic design, advertising, integrated marketing, photography direction & typography. I’ve worked on many brands like Checkers, Distell, Puma, Ackermans and many more - specialising ...
Luvuyo Mdebuka / Panel: Best practice when it comes to digital content, social media and UX
Luvuyo Mdebuka, Digital Marketing Specialist, Home Choice
With 13 years of experience in the Digital Marketing industry, I have learnt and absorbed numerous lessons that have made me the Digital Marketing Specialist I am today. Looking back at the last decade, I have easily managed over 200 digital marketing accounts and hundreds of campaigns.I have...
Verlie Oosthuizen / Panel: Best practice when it comes to digital content, social media and UX
Verlie Oosthuizen, Partner, Head Of Social Media Law, Shepstone & Wylie Attorneys
Verlie specialises in all aspects of employment law, as well as social media law (Verlie heads up the social media law team) and Protection of Personal Information (POPI) compliance. She specialises in:• Disciplinary hearings• Employment equity• Bargaining and collective rights• ...