Our team
Lawyers who understand technology.
Not technologists who learned about law.
The gap between legal practice and legal technology is almost always a people problem. Vendors who have never practised law design tools for people who have. The result is software that misunderstands the work. We come at it from the other direction.
Naz Keceli
Naz Keceli is a solicitor with nearly two decades of litigation practice behind her, including time at the Government Legal Department advising on complex public law matters. She has spent her career inside legal practice — not observing it, not consulting on it from the outside, but doing the work, running matters, and understanding at first hand how legal teams operate under pressure.
That experience is what makes Khiliad Legal different. The question Naz brings to every engagement is not “what technology could we apply here” but “how does this practice actually work, and what would genuinely serve it.” That is a question only someone with real practice experience can ask well.
“Legal technology fails most often not because the technology is wrong but because the people building it do not understand what they are building it for. I spent nearly twenty years understanding that. This is what I am doing with it.”
Naz Keceli — Founder and CEO, Khiliad Legal
The move into legal technology was not a pivot away from law. It was an extension of it. Having seen, repeatedly, where legal practice loses time, carries unnecessary risk, and fails to use the tools available to it, building Khiliad Legal was the natural next step. The mission is direct: bring the benefits of AI to legal practice in a way that is practical, governed, and grounded in how law firms actually work.
Naz leads every client engagement at Khiliad Legal. The training programmes, the governance frameworks, the readiness assessments, the automation builds — all of them carry her direct involvement. This is not a firm where the senior partner closes the deal and disappears. The experience you are paying for is the experience you work with.
Jimmy
Skowronski
Technology architecture, software development, AI systems, and the infrastructure that underpins everything Khiliad Legal builds and delivers.
Legal domain expertise from Naz. Technology delivery from Jimmy. The two together mean clients do not have to bridge that gap themselves — and the work produced does not fall into it.
Jimmy Skowronski is co-founder and CTO at Khiliad Legal. He is responsible for the architecture and delivery of everything Khiliad Legal builds: the automation systems, the AI integrations, the bespoke software, and the technical infrastructure that supports the firm’s client work.
The founding thesis of Khiliad Legal rests on a specific combination: deep legal practice experience on one side, serious technology capability on the other. Jimmy provides the latter. His involvement means that when Naz identifies a problem and a solution, there is a named, senior technologist accountable for building it correctly — not a subcontracted team or a distant development resource.
This matters most on complex builds. AI systems, legal software platforms, workflow automation that integrates with existing practice management infrastructure — these require someone who can hold both the technical complexity and the legal context in view at the same time. The collaboration between Naz and Jimmy is where that happens.
Jimmy brings the Software 2.0 delivery model to Khiliad Legal’s work: fixed price, senior delivery, full code ownership, no lock-in. AI tools accelerate the build process, and that efficiency is passed directly to clients in lower costs and faster delivery without sacrificing quality or accountability.
Ben
Thompson
AI governance frameworks, ISO/IEC 42001 implementation and audit, regulatory compliance, and the standards infrastructure that underpins responsible AI adoption.
Legal and regulatory rigour from Naz. Governance architecture from Ben. The two together mean clients do not have to choose between moving forward with AI and doing it in a way that holds up to scrutiny.
Ben Thompson has spent his career at the intersection of learning and leadership: first in education, then corporate training, and now in AI governance. He has helped organisations adopt new technologies before most people had heard of them, and helped others work out where things went wrong when they moved too fast without thinking it through.
As one of a handful of professionals certified to both implement and audit AI management systems to ISO/IEC 42001, Ben brings something that is genuinely rare: he can build the system and then stress-test it. That dual perspective matters. An implementer who cannot audit produces frameworks that look right. An auditor who has never built one produces findings that do not translate into action. Ben does both.
The founding thesis of Khiliad Legal rests on a specific combination: deep legal practice experience on one side, serious AI governance capability on the other. Ben provides the latter. His involvement means that when a client needs a framework, a policy, or an honest assessment of where they actually stand, there is a named senior practitioner accountable for that work — not a template and a junior team.
This matters most when the stakes are real. Regulators, insurers, and clients are beginning to ask harder questions about how AI is being used and governed. Ben's role is to make sure the answer is one that holds.
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