From Legal Expertise to Legal Access — A Conversation With Rebecca Kelly

🎙From Legal Expertise to Legal Access — A Conversation With Rebecca Kelly Rebecca Kelly From Legal Expertise to Legal Access: Rebecca Kelly on Making Quality Legal Support Available to Every Business In her Legacy Bench conversation, Rebecca Kelly shares a career shaped by expertise, entrepreneurship, and a determination to make the law more accessible. With more than 25 years of experience as a data and technology lawyer, she has advised businesses on commercial, data, and technology matters while building her own practice and launching shizl , a legal document platform designed to support start-ups and SMEs. But her story is about more than practising law. It is about challenging the idea that high-quality legal support should only be available to businesses with large budgets and in-house legal teams. Rebecca began her career as a corporate lawyer, advising on the sale and acquisition of businesses before moving in-house, where she specialised in negotiating commercial and technology contracts. Working closely with businesses gave her first-hand insight into the legal challenges organisations face as they grow, particularly smaller companies that often lack access to affordabl