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Lawyers are increasingly becoming entrepreneurs in all sorts of ways, creating technology-enabled services, launching innovative ventures and developing new ways to solve legal problems.
The legal sector often distinguishes between 'Big Law' and 'People Law'. Whilst major firms continue to make significant investment in AI and legal technology, some of the most exciting innovation is emerging in areas serving individuals, families and small businesses. This panel will showcase how entrepreneurial lawyers globally are using technology, new business models and creative thinking to improve access to legal services and deliver practical solutions to real-world problems.
Bringing together lawyers who have founded innovative legal ventures, our panellists will discuss and showcase how they identified opportunities for change, attracted collaborators and stakeholders, navigated regulatory and ethical challenges, and transformed ideas into successful initiatives.
The discussion will offer practical insights for innovation, entrepreneurship and the future of legal services, demonstrating how lawyers can not only adapt to change, but help shape it.
Refreshments will be provided during networking and discussion.
Panellists:

Raj Panasar
Raj Panasar is the Founder and CEO of LawFairy, an SRA-authorised, technology-only law firm believed to be the first in the world to deliver regulated legal services entirely through technology, without a lawyer or other human decision-maker in the loop.
A former partner at Cleary Gottlieb and Hogan Lovells, Raj spent more than two decades practising at leading international law firms before founding LawFairy. Combining his legal expertise with a longstanding interest in technology and automation, he built LawFairy to demonstrate that regulated legal services can be delivered at scale through deterministic technology – making high-quality legal support more accessible without compromising accuracy, accountability or regulatory oversight.

Sebastian Jenks
Sebastian Jenks is Head of Commercial at LawFairy, where he is responsible for taking the business from early product-market fit to a repeatable, scalable go-to-market model.
He brings more than a decade of experience building and scaling commercial functions in legal and dispute-resolution technology. Most recently, he served as Head of Global Sales at Resolve Disputes Online, a legal technology company providing online dispute resolution and case management systems to courts and justice systems worldwide. Previously, he was Head of Commercial at Resolver Group, whose technology enabled businesses and consumers to resolve over seven million disputes online.

Camila Colmenares
Camila Colmenares is an economist, finance professional, and Co-Founder of Cressência, an AI-driven platform that automates early-stage business design for entrepreneurs and underserved founders. As the non-lawyer co-founder building alongside a legal entrepreneur, she brings a vital interdisciplinary perspective on how technology, economics, and law meet to build scalable solutions. Based in Madrid, Spain, where she also works in tech-driven M&A deal origination, Camila has led impact initiatives reaching over 500,000 people across Latin America and spoken at global forums including the World Economic Forum Annual Summit 2026. At Cressência, she leverages prompt-less AI to lower barriers to business creation, showcasing how cross-sector collaboration can transform how emerging ventures access strategic guidance, navigate ecosystems, find funding and scale.

Sebastian Volcan
Sebastian Volcan is a corporate lawyer, legal entrepreneur, and Co-Founder of Cressência, an AI-driven platform automating business design and strategic advisory for early-stage ventures. He is also a Founding Partner at PMO Venezuela, a project management firm helping foreign investors navigate compliance and execute cross-border operations in the country. Serving as Venezuela’s National Representative at the International Bar Association (IBA), Sebastian combines high-stakes corporate advisory with venture building. At the intersection of legal practice, AI, and project execution, Sebastian demonstrates how entrepreneurial lawyers can design tech-enabled services and modern operational models to broaden access to business creation.
Chairs:
Mike Butler, Director, Professional Law Institute, King’s College London
Eleanor Kaufman, MSc Law & Professional Practice student, King’s College London
Event details
8th Floor, Bush House, Strand CampusBush House
Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG

