Team

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Lawyers for Good bridges the gap between law professionals looking to give back and communities that would benefit hugely from some support. We facilitate the exchange of knowledge, skills and compassion through purposeful connections.

Khatija Sacranie
Khatija SacranieFounder
Khatija is a Banking & Finance Solicitor with experience in US and Magic Circle law firms, as well as with global banks and financial institutions in the UK and Middle East.

Over the past decade, Khatija has built and supported a number of not-for-profit organisations. In 2011, a passion for creativity and the arts led to Khatija co-founding Dubai-based In The Frame, which sought to promote emerging artists from war-torn countries. In 2016, Khatija began working directly in the refugee crisis, travelling regularly to Athens and witnessing how skills gained as a City lawyer could be deployed in a crisis setting. She is a Trustee of Goodwill Caravan, a UK and Greek registered charity that supports refugees in making their way to a better life. In 2017, Khatija was one of the first responding lawyers on the ground following the Grenfell Tower disaster, having close ties with the community. She co-founded Grenfell Legal Support to provide immediate legal assistance to those affected.

Lawyers for Good evolved from Khatija’s own resolve to find ways to be of service through her career. With no organised structures in place that allowed her to easily plug into a cause or charity and offer her skills, she has set out to create a framework herself.

As a spiritual nomad, Khatija believes in the beauty of humanity and travels extensively. Khatija is also a certified leadership and life coach, committed to helping others find meaning and purpose through her coaching service Midlife & Meaning.

Lily Lawes
Lily LawesEditorial
Lily is a writer and content strategist with a background in travel and entertainment content. Having lived in and travelled through wildly diverse circumstances – from rural Uganda to high-rise Dubai – she’s driven by the joy of genuine connection around food, fun and cultural flavour.

Lily works with some of the world’s biggest brands, but is also dedicated to helping small, female-led organisations connect with their audience as part of her mission to live and work with purpose.

A curious soul, she’s happiest when devouring books, films and TV shows that tell the much-needed stories of women in all walks of life. She shares the story of her own search for meaning and clarity on The Cave Women. Lily is a yogi and a water baby that loves to stay close to the ocean, preferably on a tropical beach.

Serena Manzoli
Serena ManzoliDigital
Serena has been a legal counsel for the European Commission and for international corporations before realising how technology could revolutionise the legal sector. She joined the nascent legal innovation wave to work closely with several legal tech start-ups and law firms.

A published author in the legal technology and legal design space, Serena believes that legal innovation nurtures an incredible potential for democracy, improving access to justice, reducing costs for legal services, simplifying legal jargon and making the law easier to understand.

Haroon Zaman
Haroon Zaman Student Liaison
Haroon is a final year law student, studying for a BA in Law at Oxford University.

While at Oxford, he co-founded the Oxford Culture Hub, an umbrella organisation created to foster collaboration and mutual support between the university’s minority societies and to strengthen the minority voice on campus.

Haroon was also the first undergraduate President of the Oxford Pakistan Society, organising and chairing the society’s first Access Conference, aimed at increasing representation of students from deprived backgrounds in Oxford and highlighting the importance of outreach programmes.

He was also part of Grenfell Legal Support, an organisation formed in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire to provide legal and pastoral care to those affected by the tragedy. He saw first-hand the importance of using professional skills to help those most in need and the unique potential of the legal industry to provide such assistance.