# Our team Lelink brings together eight professionals with experience in legal departments, law firms, legal operations, legaltech, government, professional training and representative institutions. Every engagement has a named lead; additional expertise is brought in according to the work required. ## [Daria Viktorova](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#daria-viktorova) AI adoption, training and governance Daria Viktorova is a head of legal, DPO, AI project lead and trainer. She has led Darégal's legal department since 2015, working in an international environment on contracts, business law, intellectual property, personal data and the transformation of legal processes. She leads AI governance across the entire Darégal group, well beyond the legal department. As head of the Data & AI Task Force, she oversees use-case selection, the allocation of responsibilities, the creation of AI agents, training and adoption measurement. She also leads the Champions IA programme, which trains AI champions within the teams. Daria also created "Daria décrypte l'IA", a newsletter that now has more than 9,000 subscribers. Alongside this, she founded DARVIK, a company specialising in AI training and support for legal professionals. For Lelink, Daria designs training paths, adoption programmes and governance rules, translating legal and ethical requirements into practices that teams can understand and apply in their daily work. ### Highlights - Top Legal Voice 2025 - Finalist, Legal Management Innovation Award 2025 - AFJE AI scientific group and Managers committee ### Education - Sciences Po, post-master's programme in law and international relations - Ural State Law University, master's degree in business law - Training in professional ethics, generative AI, legal design, international contract law and environmental law daria@lelink.ai ## [Charlotte Saint Martin](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#charlotte-saint-martin) Growth, service design and go-to-market Charlotte Saint Martin has supported the growth of legal services organisations for close to eighteen years. She held marketing and business development roles at three international law firms: CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats, K&L Gates and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where she helped build new functions, key account programmes, service offers and growth initiatives in France and across Europe. Her experience gives her a practical understanding of legal-service organisation models, client expectations, how expertise is valued and the conditions required for partners, lawyers and business services teams to work effectively together. For Lelink, Charlotte leads the business dimension of transformation: evolving the value proposition, designing AI-enabled services, growth strategy, client relationships and go-to-market. ### Highlights - Defining growth strategy and business plans - Designing and structuring service offerings - Deploying key-account and client-feedback programmes - Building marketing and business development functions - Leading international projects ### Education - Sciences Po Lille - Professional master's degree in international trade, Paris IV Sorbonne - Exchange programme at Universidad de Las Américas, Puebla (Mexico) charlotte@lelink.ai ## [Emilie Letocart-Calame](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#emilie-letocart-calame) Legal operations and legal function transformation Emilie Letocart-Calame is a lawyer and legal operations specialist. After roles in insurance, real estate and technology, including Dell, CBRE and LegalCluster, she founded Calame, The Legal Ops Company, in 2019. She supports legal departments on their operating model, workflows, data, tools and performance measurement. She founded the AFJE Legal Ops committee in 2020 and published Legal Operations with LexisNexis in 2024. She also initiated One Clause, which brought legal departments, professional bodies and 21 software vendors together around a common data reversibility and portability clause. For Lelink, Emilie connects strategy, workflows, tools and adoption. She steps in when technology must concretely improve service quality, risk control and how the legal department operates. ### Highlights - Software legal lead at Dell for France, Spain and Italy - Founder of the AFJE Legal Ops committee - Author with LexisNexis - One Clause initiative ### Education - Master's degree in insurance law, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas - Master's degree in political sociology, communication and change management, Sciences Po Strasbourg - Master's degree in private law, Université Toulouse Capitole emilie@lelink.ai ## [François Girault](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#francois-girault) Lawyer working in partnership with Lelink Law, innovation and public affairs François Girault has been a lawyer at the Montpellier bar since 2012. His career combines business law, entrepreneurship, involvement in professional bodies and forward-looking work on the profession. After founding Consult It Up Avocat and becoming a partner at AGN Avocats, he joined Fidal in 2025. He advises in particular on corporate law, M&A, dispute prevention and digital law. Since January 2024, he has chaired the Foresight and Innovation committee of the Conseil national des barreaux, the French national bar council. He works on the economic, technological and social changes affecting the profession: artificial intelligence, law-firm models, innovation funding, client relationships, skills and professional ethics. For Lelink, François connects innovation strategy, law-firm realities, professional obligations and the institutional environment. ### Highlights - Chair of the CNB Foresight and Innovation committee - Former president of ACE Montpellier - Lecturer at the Global Institute for Law & Innovation - Ambassador for the Osez l'IA programme - Choiseul Futur du Droit 2025 laureate ### Education - Master's degree in law, University of Bordeaux - University diploma in arbitration, University of Montpellier - Legal Tech Lawyer Academy francois@lelink.ai ## [Mamadou Waggeh](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#mamadou-waggeh) AI strategy, market access and delivery leadership Mamadou Waggeh is an entrepreneur and consultant specialising in artificial intelligence for regulated sectors. His career connects law, public policy, professional services development and technology. After business development roles at international law firms, he worked at the Conseil national des barreaux and then at the Directorate General for Enterprise of the French Ministry of the Economy. At the DGE, he covered regulated and liberal professions as well as market services. He contributed to public work on the adoption of generative AI and on how innovation spreads in highly regulated environments. In 2024, he founded Leaid, an AI-first consultancy dedicated to regulated ecosystems. For Lelink, Mamadou structures roadmaps, go-to-market plans and delivery arrangements. He coordinates decision-makers, business teams, lawyers and technical experts around a shared outcome. ### Highlights - Founder of Leaid - Experience at the CNB and the DGE - Adviser to the Legal Data Space - Involvement with Open Law and Legalstorm - Choiseul "40 shaping the future of law" 2026 laureate ### Education - Sciences Po, public economic law - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, public affairs - ENA integrated preparatory class - York University, public administration mamadou@lelink.ai ## [Pauline Riera](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#pauline-riera) Legal innovation, ecosystem and partnerships Pauline Riera works at the intersection of law, entrepreneurship and innovation. A lawyer and legal ops professional early in her career, she became Startup Manager of the Assas Lab, the incubator of Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, in 2022. There she supports around thirty founders a year, from defining the need to structuring the business model and connecting with researchers, investors, industry and partners. She coordinates the university diploma in digital law and technology, teaches on legaltech and digital transformation, and runs several communities. She created Tech Up Legal and the Tech Up Day, whose first edition brought together 20 exhibitors and 10 talks, panels and workshops. For Lelink, Pauline sources and qualifies solutions, structures partnerships and creates the conditions for collective adoption around legal innovation projects. ### Highlights - Assas Lab - Tech Up Legal and Tech Up Day - Lab EFB - Jaya - Droit.org - Research on lawyers founding legaltech companies ### Education - Master's degree in business law - University diploma in digital transformation of law and legaltech - Bachelor's degree in law, Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas pauline@lelink.ai ## [Raphaël d'Assignies](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#raphael-dassignies) Lawyer working in partnership with Lelink AI development, legal data and law-firm solutions Raphaël d'Assignies is a lawyer, developer and specialist in digital trust systems. His career spans more than twenty-five years at the interface of law, computing and cybersecurity. He led CELOG, chaired the Agence pour la Protection des Programmes and was publishing director of Expertises des systèmes d'information and Legalis.net. Of counsel at Ydès since 2023, he advises on digital matters, intellectual property, security and artificial intelligence. He created Legal GPT and then OpenLegi, which provides automated access to official sources such as Légifrance, EUR-Lex, BODACC and BOFiP. He also publishes open-source components, including pylegifrance and an MCP server for Légifrance. For Lelink, Raphaël turns a business need into an architecture, a prototype or a solution. He structures sources, data flows, evaluations and human oversight mechanisms. ### Highlights - OpenLegi - pylegifrance - Légifrance MCP server - Legal GPT - Teaches applied AI for law at HEAD and the University of Tours ### Education - French bar qualification (CAPA) - Law at Paris-Sud and Paris-Panthéon-Assas - Computer science at CNAM - IHEDN programme - IAPP AI governance track - Certifications in machine learning, mathematics and cybersecurity raphael@lelink.ai ## [Yannick Sala](https://lelink.ai/en/equipe#yannick-sala) Lawyer working in partnership with Lelink Public affairs, government and regulated professions Yannick Sala is a lawyer at the Paris bar and a public affairs specialist for regulated professions. Admitted to the bar in 2004, he practised for sixteen years before joining ministerial offices at the French Ministry of the Economy. Between 2020 and 2024, he advised several ministers and deputy ministers on liberal professions, self-employed workers and business recovery. This experience gives him first-hand knowledge of public decision-making: preparing arbitrations, dialogue with government departments, consulting professional bodies, impact analysis and implementation monitoring. It complements his involvement with the Conseil national des barreaux, the Paris bar, UNAPL, FNUJA and the Île-de-France regional economic, social and environmental council. For Lelink, Yannick maps stakeholders, anticipates regulatory objections, builds engagement strategies and organises dialogue between innovators, professions and public authorities. ### Highlights - Ministerial adviser from 2020 to 2024 - Responsibilities within the profession's institutions - Teaching - Cooperation assignments for the Council of Europe and abroad ### Education - INHESJ auditor - French bar qualification (CAPA) - Postgraduate degree in francophone business law and legal English certificate, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne yannick@lelink.ai Official source: https://lelink.ai/en/equipe