Bio

Anna Agu is a co-founder of Lex Law Office in Estonia. Lex Law Office is a leading law firm that specializes in legal assistance for Fintech, blockchain and crypto projects. Anna is a great lawyer and advises companies in the field of finance, cryptocurrency and compliance regulation. Moreover, she is an excellent expert and public international speaker (presentations at TerraCrypto (Nur-Sultan), TerraCrypto Forum (Moscow), CryptoFin (Tallinn), FinadTech (Barcelona)). Even during the pandemic, Anna has managed to give presentations as a speaker at Blockconf Digital 2020 and Women Tech Global Conference.

Contribution to Legal Tech

She has extensive experience working for tax authorities and government working groups. Anna had also participated in the governmental working exchange visits in different EU countries. During her career, she has taken part in the development of changes in regulation and cooperation between the public authorities of Estonia. Due to this experience, Anna considers vital the cooperation between innovations start-ups, government authorities and legal experts to provide the elaboration of innovational technology and a supportive business environment.

In 2019 Anna was a co-organizer of CryptoFin Conference in Tallinn. The conference was dedicated to the recent innovations and current development in blockchain technology, as well as in alternative opportunities for financial instruments and the future of the banking sector. At the two-day CryptoFin conference, more than 30 speakers from all around the world presented their speeches and participated in the discussion panels. More than 300 participants attended the event to know the market trends in blockchain and cryptocurrency industries. 

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Kamila is an expert in implementing and executing marketing strategies and innovation within businesses, with previous experience gained in market-leading advisory companies on the Polish market.

A trailblazer of LegalTech initiatives in Poland, Kamila is the creator and President of The Women in Law Foundation, aiming at promoting the role of women in the legal industry, particularly in new technologies. Initiatives of the Foundation include meetups on trending topics within technology, a competition for the best master’s thesis joining law and technology for female students: “Law with a Technology Background”, and hosting webinars in cooperation with ELSA (European Law Students Association) on topics such as Artificial Intelligence or Blockchain. The Foundation also hosts a unique mentoring program for young women lawyers. 

Contribution to Legal Tech

Outside of her activities as President of the Foundation, Kamila takes part in and leads a variety of initiatives to highlight the importance of legal technology in the legal business. In 2020, these initiatives have included acting as a mentor and juror of the Global Legal Hackathon, teaching classes on LegalTech for attorney trainees at the Warsaw Bar Association, and conducting a webinar on PR in legal technology, with the participation of well-known journalists and legal disruptors.

In the upcoming 2020/2021 period, Kamila’s initiatives will also include acting as the Director of “LegalTech and Innovation in the Legal Industry” studies at SWPS University and launching a CEE LegalTech Hub, while continuing her activities as an ambassador of ELTA (European Legal Tech Association) for Poland. 

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Angelina graduated from the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman with a degree in Robotics and Integrated Automation.  
For more than 5 years she has been helping technology startups to go through the full cycle of forming a vision of their product before launching an MVP (minimum viable product) on the market.

Angelina is contributing to the popularization of modern IT professions in Russia, the application of product approaches in the work of organizations and the digitalization of processes. She has an international certification in project management (ICA-APM) and acts as a mentor and career coach for specialists starting their careers in the direction of project management, product management and analytics in IT.

She also gives lectures and practical webinars on Product and Project Management topics at ProductStar Russia. She is a community member and a contributor at ProductCamp Russia conferences.
She is one of the top 10 authors of the Product Management hub on habr.com, Europe’s largest resource for IT professionals.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Angelina has launched a technology platform for the implementation of digital products and business automation tasks with a low-code approach called Trood.

Trood Legal product is LegalTech startup was created as a collaboration between tech company Trood and leading Baker McKenzie experts.
Angelina as a Trood Legal CPO is responsible for the technical implementation of the product, monitors its quality and compliance with the needs of clients and leads the development team. A design engineer solution has been developed for the needs of specialists, managers and managing partners of law firms to maximize focus on their main goals in their daily work.

Also together with Max Gutbrod (ex-Managing Partner Baker McKenzie) and Holger Zscheige(organizer of the Moscow Legal Tech conferences), she is actively promoting the value of automation of operational processes to Russian law firms as well as the digitalization culture of legal processes in Russia.

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Anna is a business lawyer, Legal Designer and lives in Würzburg, Germany. Her areas of expertise are Compliance and European business law. She’s passionate about creating an easy, efficient and comprehensible access to law for non-lawyers.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Anna has designed a central reporting platform for medical institutions such as university hospitals, that provides anuser-centered, fast and easy way to report any kind of critical incidents, i.e. data protection violation, staff overloads, needs for repair, corruption and many more.  Above that, she adapts technological communication processes in companies according to the relevance of legal contents. She restructures flows of information to guarantee a target group specific communication, where less is always more.

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Jennifer Paybody is Head of Commercial at Clifford Chance Applied Solutions (CCAS), a legal tech subsidiary of Clifford Chance.

Jennifer joined CCAS in 2018 just as it was being formed. Over the last 18 months, Jennifer has set up the sales and marketing function of CCAS. This has included building a sales and marketing team, creating a go-to-market strategy for CCAS and its products, selecting and onboarding sales and marketing technology, and designing and embedding sales processes. This is an innovative set-up for a law firm that sees Clifford Chance embracing a product sales and marketing strategy (vis a vis traditional services sales and marketing from a law firm).

Contribution to Legal Tech

Jennifer is also part of the Senior Leadership Team and Product Steering Group at CCAS, through these roles she helps to inform the wider CCAS business strategy and which ideas are developed into products.

CCAS is one of the first of its kind within the legal sector; a legal tech start-up wholly owned by a law firm. Her role therefore involves her being a key champion for legal tech both within Clifford Chance and in the wider external market. Over the last year, this has seen her speaking at various conferences, organizing legal tech events, and blogging through the CCAS Insights blog. An example of this is a ‘She Shares’ event she organized with She Breaks the Law in New York, encouraging women to share their personal career stories and champion each other.

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•Elena Mechik is the CEO and co-founder of the INHUBBER, a Contract Lifecycle Management Platform. At INHUBBER she leads the development of the trusted, transparent and affordable Legal Tech software. In 2009, she founded the Non-Governmental Organization “umWELTweit” where she empowers the timber supply chain transparency based on the blockchain-based contract management. She is a guest lecturer for strategic management at the Touro College Berlin, holds a bachelor’s degree in International Business from Touro College Berlin (2008), master’s degree in engineering and economics from the Technical University of Berlin (2011), and a doctorate in earth sciences from the University of Hamburg (2017). At the London School of Economics, she has acquired her expertise in Development Economics (2014).

Contribution to Legal Tech

Elena got her legal background from her studies in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration where she has received a deep understanding of business law. During her Ph.D. studies, she has analyzed how legal rights contribute to a transparent timber supply chain, can reduce the illegal logging of tropical forests, and mitigate climate change.
Her deep understanding of Legal Tech she has received as the COO and later CEO of INHUBBER. Under her leadership, INHUBBER developed from an R&D project at the Humboldt University in Berlin to one of the fastest growing Blockchain and AI-based contract management platforms in Germany. By combining the methods of legal design thinking and the philosophy of access to justice, Elena and her team create Legal Tech solutions that are intuitive, transparent, and affordable. Her work has and will continue having a major impact on Legal Tech especially in the field of contract automation through Blockchain-based smart contracts. 

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Birte helped companies to understand and take action in the digitizing economy. With lectures and (online)workshops on digital business transformation, agile working methodologies and leadership in digital change, she has shown law firms and legal departments the opportunities that lie in digitization. Furthermore, she has initiated projects to change the firm’s and law departments way of working and leading in a digital world. 

In 2017 she co-founded asgaro GmbH to identify and validate projects at the interface of digitization and law. This is where the idea of the Erblotse was born.

Contribution to Legal Tech

The Erblotse aims at simplifying the inheritance process for heirs. For this purpose, Birte and her team have developed a user-friendly application that helps heirs to get an individualized overview over the legal and organizational tasks that they need to take care of. Additionally, the app guides heirs through the difficult process of listing and valuating the assets of their inheritance. To this end, the team has developed, among other things, Germany’s first digital estate register for heirs. 

The Erblotse’s purpose it to improve the inheritance culture in Germany by offering easy access to legal help in a digitally untapped area relevant to a broad spectrum of the society. The team’s vision is to have a positive impact on the development of society and to provide a stimulus for further legal tech initiatives aiming for social impact.

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Charlotte holds a Bachelor’s degree in Media and Communication Science and Business Administration from the University of Mannheim. Since 2017, Charlotte has been studying law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and is currently preparing for her first state examination. Her university focus was on intellectual property and competition law.

Contribution to Legal Tech

In 2017 she co-founded the Munich Legal Tech Student Association (MLTech), which draws the attention of students and academia to legal tech. A year later Charlotte co-founded the Legal Tech consultancy SFS, which supports law firms, legal departments and companies in using Legal Tech.She also moderates and produces the Legal Tech Podcast, where legal professionals are interviewed about their challenges and opportunities. 

As program director of the Legal Revolution 2020, she organizes part of the speakers and uses her network to create a diverse and forward-looking event. Charlotte recently started supporting the German Legal Tech Association in its communication and PR work in order to make Legal Tech known in politics and the public. The German Legal Tech Association fights for an innovation-friendly legal framework in Germany.

Through these projects, Charlotte brings together her interdisciplinary background. She believes that there will be major changes, especially in the field of law, in the next few years, which must be actively shaped. 

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Christina Blomkvist is a concert organist and business lawyer with more than 15 years of experience practising law. She started coding 30 years ago and as a lawyer, she created applications to handle her own and others’ tedious work. Three years ago, she founded GreenCounsel to automate everything that a human does not need to do and bring in the lawyer where and when he or she brings the most value. When not succeeding to get external funding, she built the SaaS platform on her own and today it is up and running, saving 80 % of lawyers’ time.

Contribution to Legal Tech

On GreenCounsel’s platform, customers start simple or complex legal matters online. The matters are automated from start to end, using building blocks such as information collection, custom automatic analysis, approvals, document generation, e-signing, online meetings as well as a multilingual chatbot with machine learning. The building blocks are configured in a map which a software robot use to push matters forward ensuring that the right person does what he or she should do in the right time. Some of the workflows available are sale and purchase of shares and commercial arbitration.

Christina Blomkvist has also pushed for more equality in the legal industry, both as inhouse counsel initiating the first larger private procurement of legal services with equality as a criteria in Sweden and as a frequent debater on the subject. She is also a frequent debater on the huge investment gap for tech startups.

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Magdalena studied law and communication sciences at the University of Passau at the same time and is doing her doctorate at the University of Münster. Even during her studies, she realised that the search for the right employer is not yet digital as it is in other areas. So she founded TalentRocket together with Yacine Coco. TalentRocket is a tech-based HR recruiting solution for special professional groups, such as lawyers. Meanwhile TalentRocket is a leading platform for employer branding and recruiting in the legal sector. Together with Yacine Coco, she won numerous awards for her start-up.

Contribution to Legal Tech

With the Co-founding of TalentRocket, Germany’s leading legal career platform, Magdalena disrupted the conservative recruiting in the law-sector. The Company with its HR-Tech-Solution was founded in 2012 and contributes highly to an important component of the Digitalization of the legal market: Using complex matching algorithms, TalentRocket brings together jurists and legal employers efficiently.