I am a passionate, energetic employment lawyer, inspired and driven by outcomes and service delivery in a cost effective, practical and robust manner. In so doing, I seek to build lasting relationships.
I thrive on the challenges and buzz that a busy and dynamic environment offers. I have enoyed the collaboration and synergy of working in and part of teams. I am accustomed to working in teams, either team of peers across work streams, the same stream and with junior professionals over whom I hold responsibility.
I teach juniors to be robust and available. Most importantly, I teach them to uphold the integrity of the profession and keep alive their passion for law and hunger to always learn.
I specialize in all aspects of labour litigation, public procurement, and employment law across sectors and industries, and across Middle East and Africa.
I am engaged in supporting incubation and acceleration of entrepreneurs in areas of corporate, governance, regulatory.
I have diversified my skills to acquire a broad range of HR skills including but not limited to on-boarding, grading, succession planning, strategy, advices on recruitment principles, supply chain issues, and diversity and inclusion in an HR capacity for my clients. This has served my employment practice well.
During the course of my career, I was seconded to Absa Bank Ltd and Eskom Holdings Ltd. I understand the pressure of corporate institutions across sectors and industries, and the importance of practical advice that is translatable to a corporate environment.
I am interested in more effective ways for lawyers to sell time. I believe the billable hour is costly and renders good legal advice slower to call on. Lawyers should be encouraged to employ alternative fee arrangements and fixed pricing models. Commodotized products should be available to clients as well. Corporates should look to negotiate on the basis of understanding the cost structures of law firms and slowly start to capacitate their own legal functions, using external counsel for nuanced matters, or even just litigation.