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Dr Jackie Nagtegaal
Co-Founder & Director
Jackie has spent 20 years rethinking how legal services reach the people and businesses that need them. Before co-founding Lawyerly, she built and led one of Africa's largest alternative legal organisations, growing it to over 300 people and earning recognition across legal service, technology, innovation, and dispute resolution. She holds a PhD, awarded with the Top Achiever distinction, and has been named one of the top five women in legal tech.
As Co-Founder of Lawyerly, Jackie sets the strategic direction. Her work is guided by a single conviction: the law should work for people, not the other way around. Two decades of designing legal models that put commercial reality and client need ahead of legal tradition keep Lawyerly's service practical, human, and valuable for the businesses it works with.
Qualifications
LLB; MPhil (Cum Laude); PhD (Top Achiever Award); Key Regulatory Compliance Certifications
Dr Jackie Nagtegaal
Co-Founder & Director
The businesses you advise rely on your judgement, and they tell you things they tell no one else. When a legal question comes up, they turn to you first, even when it is not strictly your field.
This asks nothing more of you than that. You are not expected to give legal advice or step outside your remit. You make the introduction you are already trusted to make, and a regulated solicitor does the work.
