• She is one of the Latin leading experts in innovation, legaltech, strategy and legal marketing.

• Managing partner at Emprendelaw a consultancy from which she advises many law firms and lawyers and founding partner at the Instituto de Innovación Legal, organizer of the #HackThe Justice hackathons and The Legal Design Challenge, a pioneering program that has introduced the Legal Design Thinking methodology in Spain.

• She created and built several corporate and professional brands and is a lawyer passionate for Technology Law.

• Maria Jesus devoted the first half of her career to the practice of law, specializing in #IP, #DataProtection and #Contracts’ Drafting. Admitted to the Madrid bar in 1989. She practiced first as a solicitor at Clifford Chance and Gómez-Acebo&Pombo; and later as a corporate counsel in several companies.

• Author of several books on management of law firms and contributes frequently to professional media.

• She teaches in several universities and lectures frequently in conferences and workshops.

• Member of the board at the European Legaltech Association (ELTA) and of FIDE; founding member of Madrid #LegalHackers and President of the Latin American Legal Professionals Women Association (AMJI).

• She can work in English, French, Italian, Dutch and Catalan.