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Welcome to another #womaninlaw interview! This month we chat with Tshegofatso Gaelae. Tshegofatso is an admitted attorney and she is currently a Group Legal Advisor specializing in Labour Relations and BBBEE Management within a leading ICT reseller and distributor group . She has worked in private practice for a short while before making the move…

Welcome to another #womaninlaw Interview! This month we chat with Claire Nolan who is an associate attorney specialising in employment law at one the Big Five law firms in South Africa. Claire specialises specifically in both the commercial and litigation aspects of employment law. Her dreams of wanting to be lawyer was almost extinguished by…

Welcome to another #womaninlaw interview! This month we chat with Yolande Tshimbombo. Yolande is an admitted attorney and associate at Bowmans whose areas of expertise include project finance as well as a background in general litigation. She holds a BA law degree, LLB degree and a Master’s degree in Advanced International Law, Trade and Foreign…

In 2021 we introduced our online mentorship programme with 154 Mentees and 12 Mentors. This year we have 83 mentees and 20 mentors. The mentorship programme is a 10 months online programme for law students and law graduates.  The programme features women in law as mentors, who are dedicated to passing down their knowledge and expertise. These are attorneys, candidate attorneys,…

Welcome to another #womaninlaw interview. This month we chat with Rorisang Mzozoyana, who is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa with over 14 years’ legal experience. Rorisang experienced Senior Legal Counsel with extensive local and international experience in Banking and Finance Law, Property Law and Coporate Law. She completed her articles…

Hello, we’re baaackk! Happy new year! W are starting off the year with an interview with a phenomenal woman in law Rhulani Nkomo Rhulani Nkomo’s main areas of expertise are banking and finance law – in particular acquisition finance, leverage finance, general banking and finance, preference share financing, cross border finance. Her more recent experience…

We are super excited about bringing back the Women in Law Interview series. This month we are featuring Aminata J. Ba.The Senegalese-born American is an attorney and founder of the Social Lawyer, through which she provides her clients with various kind of legal support, advice and services. Aminata’s current practice area focuses on providing legal…

New must read on Without Prejudice. The Good, The Bad and The Pandemic: Surviving Articles During COVID. This article was written by FWIL contributor, Disebo Leokaoke. Disebo holds an LLB from the University of Johannesburg and is a candidate attorney at Lawtons Africa. She is also a mentor on our mentorship program for 2021. Visit…

Navigating Corporate South Africa After reading  “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg, one can undoubtedly give credit to her work and how it underpins some universal hardships faced by women in the workplace; these being  imposter syndrome, pay gap and sexism,  and because these are universal experiences her recommendations on how women can “lean in” in…