Well, knock me down with a feather.. who’d have believed that’s the case in 2021 Australia !!
LWA write..
Less than a third of LegalTech founders are women – and are “largely invisible” within the industry. This urgently needs to change, according to these female tech founders.
Speaking on the first episode of the new Lawyers Weekly podcast show, LawTech Talks, the founder and director of Immediation, Laura Keily, and the founder and CEO of Xakia Technologies, Jodi Baker, spoke about being female tech founders in a male-dominated field.
The release of this episode followed the release of the Diversity in LegalTech – it’s time for action report, published by the Australian Legal Technology Association (ALTA) – in partnership with PEXA and Alpha Creates, which found that just 21 per cent of Australia’s LegalTech founders are women.
Ms Baker and Ms Keily have each experienced first-hand the lack of parity in the LegalTech industry – and reflected on what needs to change to ensure equality moving forward.
Xakia was born out of Ms Baker’s first start-up, Hive Legal.
“We saw a real gap in the market, particularly for those smaller teams who were looking for an affordable way but not necessarily an Excel spreadsheet way to solve the problem. And so, we actually built while I was at Hive with three clients,” she said.
“We were offering an offering on a third-party platform and saw the opportunity because, of course, clients didn’t really want it hosted out of law firms.”
Ms Keily not only runs Immediation but is also still a practising barrister – and said she became inspired by her litigation work to use LegalTech for good.
“When I took the leap and became a barrister, I started taking on more commercial litigation in the SME market and the mid-ranking parts of the market. That’s where I really got exposed to how difficult justice was for so many people,” she explained.
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