THE FOUNDER'S VISION is to make the law accessible to clients in an efficient, empowering and client friendly way. In doing so he wants to help clients help themselves - as opposed to the traditional approach of lawyers charging hourly, often prohibitively expensive, fees in an attempt to solve clients' problems for them. The longer they take to solve the problem, the more it costs their clients. The extent of the legal bills are seldom known upfront.
Carl Wille was born and raised in the Eastern Free State. At the age of eighteen he was conscripted into the military for two years. He was deployed in Angola, as a paratrooper, to fight in a proxy war between the USA and the Soviet Union. He returned to read law at the Universities of Stellenbosch, KwaZulu-Natal and WITS. He obtained his BA. LLB. HDIP. COMPANY LAW degrees and is reading towards a masters degree in International Human Rights and Development Law.
Carl is the lead author of Principles of Financial Law, a professional legal and business publication, consolidating the law applicable to financial institutions, financial services providers, financial advisors, retirement funds, medical schemes, collective investment schemes, asset managers, development financiers, regulators and consumers of financial services.
The Founder was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa after completing his articles at a law firm in Pietermaritzburg. He has also been awarded the CFP designation. His work experience includes three years in the Department of Justice and twelve years in Corporate South Africa, where he was engaged as in-house Legal Counsel to leading financial institutions in South Africa. Carl is a member of the International Bar Association. He currently acts as CEO of and Legal Consultant to Naked Law.
Carl's interests include: social justice, the rule of law, innovation, personal leadership, human rights in the African context, reading, writing, nature, facilitating access to the law and making a contribution to the sustainable and responsible development of Southern Africa and its people. He is a lawyer, author and activist. All he really wants is: accountability, justice, transparency, good governance, an end to poverty and world peace.