Lighthouse Law

Lighthouse Law has been shortlisted in the following four categories of the 2024 African Legal Awards: ◾ TMT Team of the Year ◾ Best Use of Tech ◾ Innovation ◾ CSR, Diversity, Transformation & Economic Empowerment We’re very proud of our team, and we also extend our congratulations to all the legal firms and individual lawyers shortlisted this year.

Lighthouse Law is proud to have received rankings in both the 2024 Chambers New Law Guide and the Chambers Global Wide Guide. Our team received a Band 2 rating for IT & Telecommunications, South Africa and a Global Wide Band 3 rating for Contract Lifecycle Management. Noting our team's “broad ranging transactional expertise” and its “strong mix of legal ability and commercial acumen”, Lighthouse was described by Chambers as a firm with “considerable standing in South Africa’s legal IT space”. Clients noted some of Lighthouse’s strengths as being a team that provides “good quality advice”, is “well-staffed for dealing with complex and sophisticated matters”, and that is “client focussed and accessible”. We value our client relationships immensely and are proud to be legal partners and to support them in achieving their business goals.

One of our founding values at Lighthouse Law is our commitment to being a force for good, and part of this mission involves our collaborative responsibility to address social challenges where we can. This month, we have chosen to support Ladles of Love, an organisation dedicated to combating malnutrition in children, providing nutritious meals to 4,000 children per day through generous donations and sandwich drives. We're proud to share that our team contributed through a sandwich drive, making over 500 sandwiches for this very worthy cause! If you'd like to learn more about this organization and their impactful work, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dNXXDYRC. #LighthousLaw #CommunitySupport #LadlesOfLove #SocialWellbeing #GivingBack

Congratulations to Mahir Ahmed and Lungelo Gwala who completed their articles and were formally admitted as legal practitioners. We are so pleased to have had you both at Lighthouse Law through your years in the Academy and as candidate attorneys – and we wish you continued success going forward. 

Our Lighthouse Academy interns, and candidate attorneys got to spend time at the High Court in Cape Town with Advocate Nicola van Zyl from the Cape Bar. Thank you, Nicola, for being so generous with your time, for sharing your thoughts and insights, and having our candidate attorneys and interns shadow you in court for those two days. It was no doubt an enriching and eye-opening experience for them, and we are very appreciative of your support for the Lighthouse Academy.

💡 Streamline Your Contracting Process 💡 Following from our previous post, our Lalena Posthumus sets out some quick and practical points to keep in mind when purchasing new legal tech solutions for delivering contracts faster and improving resource efficiencies: https://lnkd.in/dH_zeqsQ. Don't miss out on Part 3 next week where we'll consider factors to keep in mind when developing your template and knowledge resources. #ContractManagement #LegalInnovation #LighthouseLaw #StreamliningSuccess

🛠Streamline Your Contracting Process🛠 Following from our previous post https://lnkd.in/dZDt4yRC, our Lalena Posthumus sets out some quick and practical changes that you can make to your contracting process to bring about efficiency and remove unnecessary delays. These practical and cost-effective strategies are designed to enhance the productivity of your legal, procurement, and contracting teams. 👉 Don't miss out on Part 2 next Thursday where we'll explore key considerations when purchasing new legal tech solutions. #contractmanagement #legalinnovation #LighthouseLaw #StreamliningSuccess

🏆 Chambers 2024 Global Ranking - IT & Telecommunications 🏆 The Chambers 2024 Global Rankings have recently been released, and Lighthouse Law and Justin Cornish have once again achieved Band 2 listings for IT & Telecommunications Law in South Africa. Lighthouse Law and Justin maintain their rankings following recommendations made by in-house counsel, clients and other third-party experts. These listings are in recognition of the consistently high level of expertise and service that the Lighthouse Law team provides to its clients in this field. Congratulations to all firms and lawyers that are ranked this year. #chambersandpartners #chambersglobal #itandtelecoms

How to Streamline Your Contract Delivery Process📈 Here is a scenario that is all too familiar for most of us: You have too many contracts to close. There are competing deadlines, and everyone wants their contract completed urgently⌛.You don’t want to miss any deadlines, but you also need to make sure the contracts meet business requirements and manage business risk. And to top it all off, your finance team is placing budget pressure on you to close more contracts for less cost💰, while you were hoping to hire another team member to ease the workload. Sound familiar? It’s not surprising that many in-house lawyers, procurement and contracting teams are just trying to keep their heads above water - focusing their time and attention on what is most urgent, has the highest value or most risk, or simply the loudest demand. Being in this constant state doesn’t allow you to make the strategic changes to your contract delivery process needs to become more efficient and meet demand🚧. But this shouldn’t be the case. Our team has put a lot of time, thought and effort into streamlining the contract delivery process for multiple in-house legal, procurement and contracting teams, both big and small. We have put together a list of suggestions that help deliver contracts faster, manage risk, and create better resource efficiency. These changes are divided into process, technology and knowledge and we will explore these in our next posts. These changes are not moonshots– they will involve only a small amount of cost and effort. Each one of them, though small, can make a big difference to the bigger contracting picture🔎. #contractmanagement #procurementinnovation #efficiency #riskmanagement

🚨 Here is a scenario that is all too familiar for most of us: You have too many contracts to close. There are competing deadlines, and everyone wants their contract completed urgently. You don’t want to miss any deadlines, but you also need to make sure the contracts meet business requirements and manage business risk. And to top it all off, your finance team is placing budget pressure on you to close more contracts for less cost, while you were hoping to hire another team member to ease the workload. 🚨 If this is your contracting team, then you'll be interested in our upcoming series on "How to Streamline Your Contract Delivery Process" starting on Thursday. We'll take you through some practical and cost effective steps that you can implement to manage and master this process. #legalops #legaltech #contractdelivery #contractdeliveryprocess