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Lawyers On DemandLegal Consultant
Jun. 2024Provision of legal advice and business contract drafting/reviews for LOD clients.
Lay LawFounder and Legal Consultant
Jul. 2023Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaHaving become somewhat disillusioned with the unnecessarily complicated and expensive ways that traditional law firms provide services, I started Lay Law with the hope of simplifying legal services through the provision of efficient, cost-effective, unbundled legal consulting solutions to people or their businesses, without sacrificing on quality. Lay Law is a digital legal consultancy that is passionate about assisting individuals, start-ups, entrepreneurs and growing businesses with its affordable and accessible legal drafting, vetting, compliance, training and advisory service offerings across a wide range of legal practice areas. Our services include: - The drafting, vetting or negotiating of contracts, policies, T’s and C’s and legal correspondence - Company Secretarial, POPIA and PAIA compliance services - In-house training and labour law - legal research, opinions and advice While we will conduct research and provide advice around a broad spectrum of law, Lay Law’s specialities lie with business law, the law of contract, IP, privacy and data protection, ICT, labour and property law. Lay Law also provides retainer services whereby we act as an outsourced or quasi in-house legal counsel for businesses at a discounted rate, but for a limited number of hours a month. This is far more affordable and efficient than hiring a full time in-house counsel as the service can be customised to specific operational and budget requirements. As a consultancy and not a law firm, Lay Law is not beholden to the rules, requirements and many expenses of traditional law firms so it means that, while we can’t conduct reserved work like litigation or conveyancing, we have much lower overheads and, thus, are able to have a very different and more transparent billing structure. Essentially, clients know what they are in for upfront which enables them to budget accordingly and receive a much greater value for money service than what would be provided by a traditional law firm.
WASPA (Wireless Application Services Providers' Association)Adjudicator
Jul. 2023South AfricaThe Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association (WASPA) was formed in 2004 as a self-regulatory body with a mandate to represent and regulate its voluntary members, which provide mobile-based Value Added Services (VAS), otherwise known as WASPs. Membership of an industry body with a recognised Code of Conduct has been made compulsory by Telkom Mobile, Cell C, MTN and Vodacom for all WASPs. As well as representing the interests of WASPA’s members, WASPA plays a key role in regulating the provision of mobile applications and services in South Africa. WASPA’s Code of Conduct and Advertising rules were developed and implemented in 2005. It has developed a complaints handling process, to enforce these rules, that is totally independent of the WASPA Board. Anyone may lodge a complaint and each complainant is given a reference number. Complaints are handled by an independent secretariat who process complaints using a mandated civil procedure policy, while independent ICT lawyers and a 3-person appeals panel of ICT lawyers adjudicate the complaints lodged with the secretariat. An emergency panel of three WASPA adjudicators may sit to shut down offending services, pending a formal adjudication, where there is evidence of immediate and ongoing consumer harm. As one of these ICT lawyers, I adjudicate on matters related to the WASPA Code of Conduct where a complaint has been lodged. All completed adjudications are posted publically on the WASPA web site.
Capoochin PetsCo-Founder and Partner
Nov. 2021Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaInspired by the incredible bond we have with our pets and the many activities we can share with them, Capoochin Pets is committed to providing comfort and pleasure to "pooches" and their "hoomans" alike. Our pooches are so intensely loyal and teeming with unconditional, boundless love. They provide us with never ending joy and laughter and are the absolute light of our lives. We couldn’t imagine doing life without them and they deserve the best lives in return. With this unwavering love and passion, our mission is simple: provide access to the best quality and value selection of pet active wear products and other merchandise, in order to give all of our furry companions the best and fullest lives possible. Our launch collection - A classy, minimalist selection of luxury dog body harnesses and matching vegan leather leashes, available in sky blue, blush pink, nude and matte black, along with an assortment of plush, animal and food shaped pet chew toys. We also have various other unique products in the pipeline so watch this space! Check out our Instagram page: @capoochin_pets and find us online (www.capoochin.co.za), in selected vet stores and on Takealot.com
South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA)Legal Officer
May. 2021 - Jun. 2023Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaThe South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) is an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, tasked with an overall legislative mandate to identify, assess, manage, protect, and promote heritage resources (the national estate) in South Africa. Core role is that of in-house legal counsel, providing legal advice and support services to MANCO, EXCO and the organization at large, mitigating legal and compliance-based risks attached to business initiatives and operations, and providing legal representation, as and when necessary. Main activities include: - Corporate Governance and Company Secretarial duties. - Contract management and the drafting, negotiating and vetting of entity agreements/contracts/ legal documents including, but not limited to supplier agreements, SLA’s, MOU’s, heritage agreements, IP licensing agreements, data sharing agreements, confidentiality agreements, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) agreements, privacy notices, contravention notices, employment agreements, leases and sale agreements. - Assisting with litigious matters, including debt collection, evictions, commercial and contractual, labour related issues, and public law. - Providing sound legal opinions on operational matters and complex, high-level cases involving disputes around heritage resources. - Internal policy formulation and vetting. - Drafting of new regulations and legislative amendments, vetting and lodging of appeals to other government departments. - Risk management. - Property management. - Legal compliance e.g. creating a POPIA and PAIA legal compliance framework.
Own BusinessLegal Consultant
Jan. 2021 - May. 2021Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaProvided legal consultancy services to a variety of businesses and individuals across retail, e-commerce, digital media, eLearning, legal services and manufacturing sectors.
Services included: Privacy/data protection, employment matters, intellectual property advice, policy drafting, commercial contracts, broker agreements, consignment agreements etc.
Valenture InstituteHead of Legal and Governance / Intellectual Property Officer
Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2021Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaValenture Institute is a global private online high school offering a curriculum recognised by the world's leading universities. Initially employed as an Intellectual Property Officer, with primary responsibility for developing and managing all intellectual property (IP) policies and procedures. This included providing IP advice and guidance on copyright and intellectual property issues internally, liaising with external stakeholders to ensure copyright permissions were granted, working collaboratively with Learning Designers on asset tracking to ensure all external assets used organisationally were accounted for. By April 2020 role expanded to become Head of Legal and Governance , which included responsibility for the overall good standing of all legal and governance related affairs. In addition to providing general counsel, was responsible for developing, implementing, refining and pioneering resources and mechanisms to strengthen the company’s position in respect of all legal affairs. Examples included: - Reviewing, vetting, negotiating and drafting of company contracts across the spectrum of the business including Operations, IT, Vendors, Contractors, Marketing, Leasing, Employment, Privacy, Finance and Company Agreements. - Drafted and oversaw the creation of a Quality Management System, all company policies, processes and “Terms and Conditions”. - Developed a compliance schedule for all entities/ service offerings and attended to all compliance related matters within the company (GDPR/POPIA, department of Labour and company contracts compliance). - Created and managed a risk register and resolutions for the organisation. - Management of all intellectual property matters including improved effectiveness of IP procedures as the company expanded its offerings. - Oversaw the establishment of all company and school policies from scratch.
Exigent Group LimitedAssociate and Project Manager - eDiscovery
Jul. 2018 - Jan. 2020Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaExigent is a provider of comprehensive legal outsourcing services to corporate lawyers, legal departments and law firms. Employed in the Litigation Support and eDiscovery Department. Role required a mixture of tech knowledge, project management skills and legal acumen in order to manage and lead teams of document review specialists, who whittled down large amounts of data for clients (mainly based overseas), to an appropriate discoverable product (assessing relevancy, privilege and confidentiality) when in litigation and/ or regulatory proceedings. Activities including: - Managing small to large scale eDiscovery projects from onset to delivery.
- Drafting of time and cost estimates. - Team selection and training (approximately 20 people per project).
- Management of the entire document review exercise, including quality control processes.
- Management of revenue and profit margins.
- Client engagement.
Henkes Nolte-Joubert AttorneysAssociate Attorney: Commercial and Litigation
Sep. 2015 - Nov. 2017Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaFollowing articles of Clerkship was hired as an associate attorney in the Commercial and Civil Litigation department of HNJ Attorneys. Was engaged with High Court, Regional Court and Magistrates Court litigation, arbitration, business rescue and insolvency matters, drafting of commercial contracts, administration of deceased estates, family law and debt collection. As this was a small, general practice, was exposed to a broad arena of law, with an emphasis on commercial and civil litigation.
Smith Tabata Buchanan BoyesArticles of Clerkship / Candidate Attorney
Jun. 2014 - Jul. 2015Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaSpent the first 6months of articles in the Conveyancing dept. of STBB, gaining intimate knowledge of the Deeds and Masters Office procedures, property transfers and estates. Completed the final 6 months of articles in the Civil Litigation department, dealing with property disputes, debt collection and general Magistrates Court litigation.
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