We are proud to showcase the first Ric Martin Incorporated hosted, Budding Women in Law networking event.
The purpose of this event was to create a platform where young female attorneys, advocates, and other legal professionals have the opportunity to start building relationships with their colleagues from early on in their careers. Furthermore, we recognise that being a legal professional goes beyond the three traditional career paths, and for that reason we would like to expose our attendees to different avenues that can still be explored.
It is our vision that our event will assist the new generation of women in the legal profession to build interpersonal relationships with their colleagues, and by building and fostering these relationships they will bloom into a strong support structure as we progress in our careers.
Our event was open to legal professionals and a limited number of final year university students. The theme for the event was “Bridging the Divide” with keynote speakers from various legal professions including attorneys, advocates, judges and financial services providers touching on this subject.
To all of those in attendance, we would like to thank you for joining us and we greatly look forward to 2023’s edition.
Guest Speakers
Sinako Lindazwe
Guest Speaker
Advocate
Sinako Lindazwe is a member of the Johannesburg Society of Advocates and holds chambers at Thulamela Chambers. Her journey in the legal field started off when she served as a law researcher to Justice Jafta at the Constitutional Court in 2016. Her service and contributions in this role paved the way for her subsequent appointment as a senior law researcher to the Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, in 2017. In addition to this she also served as a law researcher at the Supreme Court of Appeal where she rotated amongst the Judges of the appeal’s court.
Sinako’s love of law and of people goes beyond practise, and subsequently lead to her founding a registered NPO called the Sinako We Can Movement (Sinako We Can), an empowerment program focused on mentorship for passionate aspiring future legal practitioners. Her unbreakable commitment to social justice and upliftment to young people has led to her being named one of Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young Persons of South Africa in 2022.”
Prior to her Top 200 Young People in South Africa award, she was also shortlisted for the top 10 McKinsey & Co Next Generation Women Leaders Award, a platform which explores the importance of women in leadership, in 2018. Later that year, she was selected for the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) program as part of the next generation of innovative leaders who were empowered to shape the future of business/entrepreneurship, civic leadership and public management in Africa.
Fatima Ebrahim
Guest Speaker
Fatima is the Executive Head of Claims, Risk & Compliance at Leppard Underwriting. As part of her current position, she manages complex Professional Indemnity & liability claims & oversees the claims handling carried out by a dynamic & experienced team of professionals. She is further involved with compliance, risk & HR functions.
Her dedication to the development of the legal profession has led to over 10 years of involvement at the Legal Practice Council – formerly known as the Law Society of South Africa. In this capacity she not only lectures Insurance & Risk Management in the Practice Management Training course, but also the co-authored the course manual. A testament that ‘till this day, the insurance industry continues to drive & excite her.
Fatima believes that client engagement & effective communication is central & that in order to be successful one has to be truly transparent & maintain strong ethical values.
Puno Selesgo
Guest Speaker
Puno Selesho is a freelancer & consultant in the creative & developmental industries space. As a spoken word artist, she has performed on various platforms including TEDx Pretoria, Standard Bank Women in Innovation, Berlin, Germany at a tech conference called Re:publica as well as at the Presidential launch of The Youth Employment Service. She further has experience in copywriting, corporate communications, content creation, workshop facilitation, strategy & project coordination.
From early on she started various social development initiatives, including The Cherry Blossom Project which provides Matric Dance dresses for underprivileged girls ,The Park Exchange which is a platform for professionals, students & creatives to engage on crucial social issues, Spoken Sessions which provides platforms & places for poets & performers, & Harvest Books, an online store for African literature.
She possesses a deep appreciation for words & people, which has inspired a journey of collaboration with a wide range of entities such as Three Ships Whisky, Li Lets & Heath & Wentzel Optometrists.
Through words, Puno has brought many a project to life, & further hopes to help people see the world through a creative lens, communicate their own value, challenge social norms, share the modern African narrative, & add a bit of hope to society. It is her love of words that has also led her to author the book “Love Handles: Tiny Tales from my Twenties”.
You can find Love Handles at www.harvestbooks.co.za & www.amazon.com.
Alet Uys
Guest Speaker
Alet Uys is a sole practitioner & director of Alet Uys Attorneys, where she specialises in family law & commercial law. She obtained both her Bcom Law & LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria where she excelled academically & was awarded Golden Key International Honours Society membership & appeared on the Dean Merit List for the Law Faculty’s. She is currently in the process of completing her LLM degree specialising in Family Law at the University of South Africa.
Alet started her legal career at the University of Pretoria’s Law Clinic, where she obtained extensive training in both civil and criminal litigation. She established her own firm in 2015, soon after her admission as an attorney. She has vast litigation experience in domestic violence & harassment in the Magistrates’ & High Courts, as well as experience in private arbitrations, labour law & CCMA matters.
Alet made her mark in the legal profession when she handled the famous Hennie’s Restaurant matter which dealt with unlawful arrest & confiscation of alcohol, in 2021. In addition to the Hennie Restaurant matter, some of her career highlights also include two reported cases in the Braamfontein Labour Court in 2019, a dog bite matter that was covered in the YOU Magazine in 2019, a published article in the Female Entrepreneur Magazine in 2018, commentary in Netwerk24 during 2016 to 2018 & she has also has successfully assisted the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, in a Public Law matte,r from 2017 to 2019.
Read some of the matters Alet dealt with below:
Hennie’s Restaurant:
Carmichael-Brown v Liquid Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd
http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZALCJHB/2019/6.html
Liquid Telecommunication (Pty) Ltd v Carmichael-Brown
http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZALCJHB/2018/153.html
Urgent Rule 43(6) in South Gauteng High Court:
Mathabo Mohwadub
Guest Speaker
Mathabo Mohwaduba is currently a second-year candidate attorney at one of the leading international law firms, based in Sandton, Johannesburg. Mathabo holds an LL.B. & LL.M. in Extractive Industries Law in Africa from the University of Pretoria.
In 2019, Mathabo clerked for the Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at the Constitutional Court of South Africa where she had the privilege of being part of the judgment processes of some of the most important constitutional cases in our jurisprudence.
Thereafter, she was selected as the first South African to be an African Union Council United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) fellow stationed at the United Nations Headquarters in, New York, USA, in the UNDP Bureau for Africa. During her almost 1.5 years at the UNDP, Mathabo had the opportunity to make substantive contributions to ground-breaking development initiatives across the African continent.
Mathabo, who identifies as a Pan-African, is passionate about serving Africa, her people & all humanity through justice, development & disruptive innovation.
She lives by the motto, “We are the ones we have been waiting for”.
Event details:
Date: 3 September 2022
Time: 12:00 -16:00
Venue: Silver Lakes Golf Club, Silver Lakes Golf Estate, La Quinta Street, Pretoria East
Cost to attend: R200 Includes event entrance, 3 course meal and conference pack.
Registration for the event will open soon.
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