Leila El Gharbi on Clubhouse

Bio

(French qualified)lawyer 🇫🇷 🥖🥐🍷based in the UK 🇬🇧🍞☕️🫖

Who made the move to legal tech

Now Corporate lawyer/project manager at eBrevia (contract review and analytics tool)


Legal tech enthusiast👩🏽‍💻🔝🔄
ESG enthusiast 🌏✨
Well-being and mental health advocate 🧘🏽‍♀️🤩
Positive (renewable) energy spreader☀️😃🌈

Creator of “ A human behind the lawyer”
Moderator of “Legal Tech Europe”

Once upon a time, I wanted to defend the poors and the orphans, this is why I started my long and tedious journey of law studies
I am also passionate about languages, currently speaking 5 languages: French 🇫🇷Spanish 🇪🇸 English 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Italian 🇮🇹 and Arabic🇹🇳 and adding to the list 🤞🏽

I ended up not saving poors and orphans
BUT
Still willing and making an impact out there...

Regarding my experience:
I worked 5 years in both private practice and in-house legal department before making the move recently to legal tech!
Versatile lawyer with experience so far in Compliance, finance, corporate, M&A, employment law and commercial contracts.

A bit more about me:
My journey was quite the rollercoaster in the past few years, I started my career in France, took a year off after 3 years in the industry and decided to move to the UK.

Started from the bottom (now we’re here 🎶) when I landed in London: I worked as a waitress, brand ambassador, receptionist, private tutor, hostess etc.
I genuinely believe that when you put your ego aside, you can learn so much (transferable skills ✅). I also genuinely enjoyed every little opportunity I had to work and allowing me stay longer in the UK till I finally had my first foot in the UK legal market.
Change is always uncomfortable but at least I have great stories to tell!

Guilty of:
- imposter syndrome ✅
- Smiling too much✅
- Avoiding burn out ✅🤔❎

Love:
- 🥾hiking: camino de Santiago: 1000 miles (1700km) hiking trip!
- baking, cooking and hosting 🍫 (from fondant au chocolat to couscous)
- dancing 💃 (salsa, bachata, Afro, belly dance etc)