Women Leading the Legal Tech Revolution in India

In India’s legal sector, entrenched paper trails and manual processes are still commonplace, even as technology offers faster, more transparent solutions. Against this backdrop, a group of remarkable women is emerging as changemakers. They are not just introducing innovative tools; they are wrestling with entrenched systems, navigating biases, and demanding that legal services become more accessible, efficient, and transparent. This journey is neither smooth nor uniformly celebrated; it requires grit and resilience.

To understand the real impact of their work, let’s begin by exploring how they broke free from outdated manual workflows.

Breaking Free from Manual Workflows

Suchorita Mookerjee – As Chief Technology Officer at MZM Legal LLP in Mumbai, Mookerjee has spent years untangling manual processes inherited from large law firms. After tenures at IBM, Exela Technologies, Mindcrest, and Bodhi Global, she now leads a team that overhauled MZM’s document workflows. She admits the initial months were a grind—resistant partners, patchy data, and steep learning curves—but today the firm processes client matters nearly 40% faster than before.

Priyanka – Manupatra’s Chief Operating Officer since 2000, Priyanka has steered the firm through the shift from print to digital legal research. Early on, she encountered skepticism from seasoned researchers wary of online databases. She spent countless late nights training teams, debugging search algorithms, and refining user interfaces. Today, Manupatra serves thousands of lawyers daily, but that success belies the years of iterative fixes and cultural pushback she overcame.

Ananya Shukla – As Assistant Vice President of Lexplosion Solutions, Shukla specializes in legal tech, compliance, and regulatory assessment. She navigates labor- and industry-specific laws to deliver litigation support and corporate due diligence, balancing complex regulatory environments with client needs.

Shubhangi Goel – A Legal Tech Solutions Specialist at A&O Sherman, Goel leverages her experience at Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance Business Services to implement technology-driven workflows in one of India’s largest international law firms.

Entrepreneurship: Building Amid Uncertainty

Across roles and ventures, these founders are bound by a shared willingness to take risks, defy conventions, and build solutions where none previously existed.

Shilpi Jhingran – As Associate Director–Legal (APAC) at Exela Technologies since April 2024, Jhingran manages compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Armed with an LLM in International Law, she recalls her first project, when patchwork regulations threatened deployment across borders—she consulted local counsel to align tech timelines with legal realities.

Gautami Raikar – Founder and CEO of Contractzy, Raikar turned a seedling idea into an AI-driven contract lifecycle management platform. In the early days of LawMate, she coded prototype features herself, often sacrificing weekends to refine clause extraction. Today, Contractzy offers drafting, review, digital signing, and legacy repositories—achievements she secured only after weathering investor questions about market fit and regulatory hurdles.

Rasmeet Charya – Head of Products and Innovation at The Right Will and Estate Planning Ltd, Charya leads legal tech strategy and training for advisers. Drawing on her experience as Chief Innovation Officer at Algo Legal and Innovation Strategist at legalverse.ai, she navigates cross-functional teams to bring cutting-edge solutions from concept to market.

Akshatha Ashok – Co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of Sama, launched in 2018 amid her law school exams, Ashok juggled mediation training with product development. Sama’s online dispute resolution model—featured on Shark Tank—now connects 104 mediators across 26 cities, despite the uphill battle of persuading traditional bar associations to accept tech-enabled mediation.

Namita Shah – Co-founder of Presolv360, Shah built a fast-track alternative to court litigation by integrating human expertise with technology. Before Presolv360, she founded Legal Tech Asia, creating a platform for legal tech news and reviews.

Priyadarshini Shetty – Founder of Walchet and Elliot, Shetty created Walchet as a portal for legal tech advocacy and Elliot as a consulting service to optimize tech in law firms. Her suite of solutions spans contract auto-generation, document styling, AI-powered extraction, and contract lifecycle management systems.

Counsel in a Digital World

Abhilasha Agiwal – As the Vice President- Legal Counsel at Swiss Re, Agiwal designs frameworks for data privacy and disruptive technologies. With over 12 years in manufacturing and services industries, she mediates between CXOs hungry for growth and legal teams wary of risk, drafting policies through dozens of revisions.

Karishma Govil – Legal Technology Advisor at Clifford Chance, Govil moved from SirionLabs’ CLM startup to one of the world’s largest law firms. She spearheads pilots integrating AI into complex transactions, proving value through intensive side-by-side accuracy comparisons.

Komal Gupta – Chief Innovation Officer at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Gupta fosters a culture of innovation by acting as technologist, strategist, and advocate. She also serves on the advisory board of the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association, bridging industry and academia.

Sushmita Das – Senior Director, Technology Consulting India, at FTI Consulting, Das has led digital risk and compliance projects across sectors. She emphasizes that successful transformations require phased rollouts, stakeholder alignment, and realistic timelines.

Vaishali Gopal – Vice President, Integrated Solutions at Counselect, Gopal champions the “tech plus people” approach, drawing on 15 years in legal tech product management. An LLM graduate from Duke Law, she tailors integrated solutions for global clientele.

Nasima N. – Senior Director of Legal Operations at BancTec, Nasima provides pre- and post-sales support for legal tech implementations. With over 15 years of consulting experience, she led training initiatives at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas before joining BancTec.

Innovators and Educators: Shaping the Next Wave

Sohini Shrivastav – From transactional lawyer to Associate Dean and founder of Lexo Learning in 2023, Sohini Shrivastav bridges academia and practice. She navigated curriculum approvals and early feedback cycles to launch India’s only AI-focused legal education platform. In 2025, she joined Axara AI as a Founding Member, Growth & Partnerships, further advancing her mission to integrate AI into legal education and practice.

Radhika Kabbade – Founder and Director of LegalBook since 2018, Kabbade’s AI-based contract review service promises tenfold speed improvements. Building client trust meant offering free pilots, transparent error audits, and ongoing customization—a marathon of incremental wins.

Juieen Nag – Co-founder of Riverus Technology Solutions, Nag has overseen legal department transformations at Société Générale, BNP Paribas, and NatWest Group. She advocates for bespoke tech solutions over off-the-shelf products, leading lengthy integration engagements.

A Community in Motion

The women profiled here share more than titles. They share a willingness to tackle friction points head-on: legacy mindsets, technical glitches, and the skepticism that greets change. Their stories remind us that legal tech progress is built on both visionary ideas and countless hours of testing, training, and persuading stakeholders.

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