Paulina Quartey is a Practice Development Officer at Merton & Everett LLP, where she plays a cross-cutting role at the intersection of business development, legal knowledge management, communications, and strategic innovation. In this capacity, she works closely with the Management Partners to support the firm’s growth, strengthen operational efficiency, and position Merton & Everett as a thought leader across its core practice areas.

Paulina coordinates the firm’s Affiliate Counsel Programme, overseeing onboarding, collaboration, and communications to ensure meaningful engagement and mutual value between the firm and its network of affiliate lawyers. Her broader responsibilities include developing client engagement strategies, coordinating internal legal trainings and CPDs, supporting strategic litigation and policy advocacy, leading communications and branding efforts, and building partnerships with civil society and professional bodies. She also oversees research outputs, knowledge management systems, and innovation initiatives within the firm.

Paulina has served in various capacities at Merton & Everett, where she has been instrumental in rolling out key internal initiatives and strengthening the firm’s people-centred and communications frameworks. She holds an LLB from Rhodes University, where she contributed actively to legal scholarship and student governance as InCamera Editor of the Rhodes University Law Society, a Legal Theory Tutor, and Administrator of the Rhodes University Independent Electoral Board.

Paulina has facilitated community training on environmental rights and paralegal education on the criminal justice system, reflecting her commitment to accessible legal education and public interest lawyering. She has also undertaken professional development programmes with ALX, Amalitech, McKinsey Forward, and the Centre for Higher Education CHERTYL.

An impact-driven thinker, Paulina’s long-term interests lie in policy advisory work, particularly in environmental law, constitutional governance, technology regulation, and skills development. She is committed to shaping ideas, systems, and policies that advance sustainable development, democratic reform, and equitable access to opportunity in Ghana and beyond.

“They had always told me that I wrote like a man.” — Ama Ata Aidoo