> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.lawtechradar.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Founders Journey: Why I started LawTechRada - URL: https://www.lawtechradar.org/why-i-started-lawtechrada/ - Published: 2026-11-03T09:00:44.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-12T05:10:15.000Z - Description: AI is changing legal work faster than our laws can keep up. Here is why I started LawTechRada. - Author: LAWTECHRADAR *AI is changing how lawyers and businesses operate faster than our laws can keep up. Lawtechrada is here to help Africans understand it, use it responsibly, and build with it.* For the past four years I have been in-house counsel for a clearing, forwarding, and logistics company. For much of that time, I was the company's memory on everything legal. I knew which contracts were awaiting approval or renewal, which claims were still unresolved, what was happening with ongoing disputes, what we owed external lawyers, and which legal issues needed someone to follow up. If anyone wanted to know the history or status of a particular matter, chances are they would come to me. Now, interestingly, none of the above information was in one place. It was all scattered; some were emails from external advocates. Some came through WhatsApp and telephone conversations, and some were shared along the corridors and in boardroom meetings. At one point, when I went on leave and a certain matter was coming up in court, no one really knew what it was coming up for, and I could feel myself carrying the entire legal department on my head. This situation is not unique to my company. Law firms, in-house teams, and businesses of every size run most of their operations this way. There is always that one person who knows the entire history of a particular matter, and their absence always causes anxiety, uncertainty, confusion, and ultimately, chaos. Only a system would be a solution to this predicament. A system that is built and tailored to a company's own operations from the ground up. One that is fed with all the information and one that can be accessed by any individual within the department at any given time. The days of monopolizing information may be long over, and AI has opened its rather large doors to the opportunity of building elaborate systems that assist businesses in running their operations. For instance, the solution to my predicament would be a smart legal system that holds all the information. For court cases, the court, the case number, the stage, the advocate handling it, the amounts paid out, the possible outcomes, who is responsible for what, etc. The system can also handle case management, billing, document management, legal calendaring, legal accounting, leave management for staff, contract management, and client relationship management ("CRM"), among other functions. The system would have automatic reminders that go out at scheduled times to respective people for action; it would be visible for management to access at any time, without necessarily calling legal. And those email updates can be read and logged into the system automatically, taking out the human need to remember and type it in. This system would not, however, replace the role of the lawyer; it would merely give the lawyer and the businesses a clear view of the work. In my experience, AI is not taking away any legal jobs, not in a few years at least. What I see is actually the opposite: it is creating new roles. Most companies looking to take advantage of AI are now advertising and hiring for fairly new roles such as legal operations managers who design how legal work moves through a business. Legal engineers who build the templates, workflows, and automations. AI Governance and Compliance counsel who advise companies on how they use AI and data protection officers, a role the Data Protection Act, 2019, has made necessary. A few years ago, most of these roles barely existed in Africa. The opportunity goes well beyond law. For many years we have depended on apps built in Silicon Valley. Many of them are very good, but they were built for other markets, other habits, and other budgets. AI has significantly changed the cost of building. Software that once needed a team of developers and months of work can now be put together by a small team, sometimes just one person, in just a few days and for a fraction of the cost. That means we can build tools that fit how we actually live and work: our payment systems, our languages, our operations, and our small businesses. The opportunity is here, and for many of us it is a few clicks away. AI is not without problems. It can produce completely wrong answers with complete confidence, and lawyers in Kenya and elsewhere have already filed submissions citing non-existent cases, donated by generative AI. AI can repeat the biases in the data it learned from. Deepfakes are already deployed to deceive; a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police. This demonstrates just how advanced AI has become in recent months and the endless capabilities it has created, good or bad. Unfortunately, our laws are lagging behind: Kenya's first AI bill stalled in the Senate this year. AI may be a rolling stone, completely untethered and ungoverned, and there is more reason now to understand AI properly and to use it responsibly. LawTechRada is a platform for insight, learning, and knowledge sharing. Here is what you will find: - News and analysis on law, technology, and AI, with a focus on Kenya and the rest of Africa - Practical guides and demos on using AI in your work and community - Conversations with people who build, use, and regulate technology - The LawTechRada podcast, featuring those guests - Coverage of tech and legal events as they happen Our mission is to help people across Africa understand AI and technology and to use it to improve their work and their communities. We cannot do that alone, so we will do it in collaboration with practitioners, builders, regulators, students, and anyone with knowledge worth sharing. You do not need to be a lawyer to be part of this. If you care about technology, AI and making a real difference in your community, subscribe to our newsletter, follow LawTechRadar on LinkedIn and other social media pages, and tell us who we should talk to next. Trevor Mweresa Founder, LawTechRadar