Winning at Law

This is a special podcast episode created in anticipation of The Kenya Law Career Fair KE's Legal Entrepreneur's Day.

Legal entrepreneurship is a broad and multi-faceted subject. We're shifting the conversation from sharing personal experiences to exploring specific aspects of the business side of law, starting with the foundational elements of PR and branding.

In this episode, we invited five business development managers with a background in tier-one law firms to unpack Public Relations and Branding for lawyers and law firms.

We welcome

Gachunga Edward Karera: Lead Consultant, Axzerah Consulting

Oliver Manyasi: Head of Strategy, Business Development, Relationships, and Marketing, CMS Kenya | Daly Inamdar Advocates

Aura Fiona: PR & Branding Consultant, Branding The Bar

Abel Mwongela: Head of Business Development and Marketing, Oraro & Company Advocates, and

Wangui Njuguna: Advocate & BD Professional, CM LLP

If you're a legal entrepreneur, get some pen and paper as you listen, because the insights will come at you fast. Some of the professionals from this episode will be at The Law Career Fair's Inaugural Event on the 11th of July 2026. See you there

This is a special podcast episode leading up to the inaugural Legal Entrepreneurs’ Day which is part of The Law Career Fair KE.

After five years of curating content to empower lawyers to unbox the law, the pieces that focus on legal entrepreneurship remain our most-consumed assets.

There's a knowledge transfer gap between the Advocates who have cracked law as a business, either as solo preneurs or as a partnership, and those who want to venture into legal entrepreneurship.

In this episode, our host Dissi Obanda speaks to two legal entrepreneurs: Halima Magairo whose practice, Nyakinyua Magairo Law Practice, just turned a year and a half, and Veronika Kiliti, founding partner at K&A Advocates LLP, a ten-year-old firm. Both founders share insights from their legal entrepreneurship journeys: the humble beginnings, things they wish they knew, what they’re doing better, and their aspirations for the future.

Enjoy

The second edition of The LawDown Africa’s Law Career Fair (The LawDown Africa is our sister publication) went down on 12th July 2025. It was a day dedicated to unboxing the law for young lawyers and law students through 17 masterclasses and a panel discussion curated to facilitate learning, networking, and mentorship.

Our parent company, Jurorbox, is passionate about learning; hence, all its affiliates are learning-centered. So, we took the time to learn more about our career fair’s impact from the attendees' perspective. In this special episode, our Founder, Dissi Obanda, teams up with our team member, Sylvia Njoki, in a conversation with six attendees from the July 12th law career event as they unpack their experiences.

Listen to Abraham Kioko, Adeline Kiptoo, Favour Christabellah, Oketch Odhiambo, Lennox Kirianki, Favour Christabellah, and Rahmashueb Abdikadir as they recount their experience at The LawDown Africa’s career fair. All six are law students who are either in law school or completing their pupillage. If you missed the fair, we hope this episode will encourage you to attend the next one.

This podcast episode is a civic education engagement focusing on the issue of femicide. The LawDown Africa is the official legal partner working on a mobilization campaign supported by Usikimye, an NGO that focuses on GBV sensitization and GBV survivor care, and Ogilvy Africa.

To bring the legal insights and shed light on the practicability of criminalizing femicide, we spoke to Caroline Muriu, a Prosecution Counsel who has prosecuted GBV, sexual assault, defilement, manslaughter, and murder cases at the local and High Court levels.

Gain insights into the judicial process for handling GBV and femicide cases, how the crimes above escalate into femicide, and why femicide should be criminalized and what that would look like.

As we continue our #SheDidThat! Campaign this women’s month, our guest in this episode is Liz Lenjo. Liz Lenjo is an Advocate of the High Court, A thought leader in Entertainment Law, IP Law, and Fashion Law, and a legal entrepreneur.

Enjoy this insightful yet vulnerable and heartwarming episode as Ms Lenjo reflects on her career journey through the legal sphere, including how intentionality shaped her career choices and subsequent outcomes. Learn from her as she unpacks her achievements, low moments, and lessons in her journey to #BecomingWakili, creating lasting impact and holding out a light for the next generation of lawyers by paying it forward through mentorship.

Happy Women’s History Month!

Our distinguished guest in this episode, the first of a series of episodes for our 2025 Women’s History Month, is Pat Mbugua. Ms. Mbugua is an award-winning lawyer with a career spanning over two decades, first at Walker Kontos, a tier-one law firm, where she grew from a pupil to partner, and later in the banking sector, serving as in-house counsel in various banking institutions, including Bank of Africa and Standard Chartered Bank Kenya Limited.

Pat is passionate about mentorship, and as part of our #SheDidThat! Women’s month campaign, she lays it all bare. Listen to this heart-warming conversation, as she reflects on her journey in law and beyond the brief, owns her achievement and encourages the next generation of lawyers with invaluable words of wisdom.

This episode is a snippet of Kenya’s First-ever Law Career Fair organized by The LawDown Africa, an online legal magazine. The event, which was held on the 31st of August 2024 at the Kenya School of Law, Karen Campus, bore the theme: Exploring Legal Horizons.

Therefore, it included a panel discussion on the diversity of the legal sector featuring:

Pat Mbugua of StanChart and former Partner at Walker Kontos

Mrs. Rispah Simiyu, Commissioner for Domestic Taxes at KRA

Ayieta Lumbasyo, Founder, Fertility Law Clinic,

Timothy Owase, CEO of Kenya Film Commission. Mr Owase went to law school in 2019 despite having a master’s in Communication (A young lawyer with 20+ years of experience in storytelling, marketing, and communication)

Dr. Maurice Ajwang’, Dean Faculty of Law Daystar University (Dr. Ajwang’ also facilitated a masterclass in sports law)

Mary Njeri, Team Lead, Ending Violence against Women and Girls, UN Women Kenya

Listen to the six panelists, each an industry caption in their own right, as they explore the ins and outs of practicing law in their respective industries. Learn from them as they reflect on the lessons they’ve learned in their journeys to #BecomingWakili (things they don’t tell you in Law School).

June has multiple observances focusing on children and child rights, including International Children’s Day, International Day of the African Child, and World Day Against Child Labor. So, we had a chat with Joy Katunge Matheka, an Advocate of the High Court and a Children’s Law expert.

Ms. Katunge scooped the Civil Society Lawyer of the Year Award during the 2021 Nairobi Legal Awards, owing to her contribution to child protection activities. She shares her journey of grace into child protection law (which she considers her true calling) while unpacking the scope of children’s rights and her experiences practicing law in CSOs. Additionally, she highlights the strides the Kenyan government has made in upholding child protection, and what lawyers can do to promote children’s rights in their spheres of influence.

The church is arguably among the oldest institutions in Kenya, yet there is a gap in its utilization of legal services. In this podcast, we focus on the church as a growing area of practice and interview two advocates, Sr. Trizah Muthoni and Myron Mukuna, who are pioneers in this area.

Sr. Trizah is the in-house counsel for the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, while Myron Mukuna is an ordained Diocesan Chancellor of the Anglican Church of Kenya, Butere Diocese. Listen to them as they unpack the law as a service, its impact on the community, and living a bivocational life.

Happy 49th International Women’s Day.

As we mark this observance @Anna Mutavati, the Country Director @UNWomen, Kenya, graces our platforms for an insightful conversation on bridging the gap between policy and practice to achieve gender parity and empower women.