Legal Unicorn Leah Molatseli - Pushing Boundaries

Leah Molatseli is a lawyer, published legal tech author, speaker, and Legal Tech and Innovation Specialist who currently holds the role of Head of Business Development at Legal Interact. She focuses on the intersection between law, innovation, and technology, using her expertise to educate and empower the legal market. She is a Guest Lecturer at the University of Cape Town where she develops and teaches legal tech and innovation-related courses to the broader legal industry. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow, a University of Notre Dame alum who enjoys everything that speaks to using technology and innovative processes to empower lawyers in whatever roles they find themselves in, from practicing lawyers to in-house legal teams.

She sits as a Council Member of the University of the Free State, where she is a member of the ICT Committee, is Chairperson of the Naming Committee and Vice-Chairperson of the Disciplinary Committee, is part of the Advisory Board for the Global Legal Tech Hub and Women in Tech South African Chapter, a country member for the Global Legal Tech Consortium and is one of 2022’s International Legal Technology Association’s Most Influential Women in Legal Tech and American Bar Association’s 2022 Women of Legal Tech Honouree. She recently was awarded the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum (ISF) 2023 Fellowship, from Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative, which was founded by Wendy and Eric Schmidt, which brings talented people together in networks to test their ideas and solve complex problems in science and society. She is a 2023 Justitia Awards Nominee and Institute for African Women inLaw- 2023 Women to Watch.

Leah is a University of the Free State LLB alum she thenarticled at the UFS Law Clinic she became admitted as an Attorney of the High Court, in the Free State in 2012. She worked in private practice before founding a legal tech startup and publishing a legal technology book with Juta.