About
About the lab
What should the professions we rely on become next?
Lejacie is an independent research, learning and innovation lab for the future of legal and justice professions, based in Melbourne, Australia.
We specialise in what happens after the paper: the moment law, policy, research and professional expertise have to work for a real person, and for the professional in front of them.
Our focus: law and justice, and AI.
It was founded around a recurring observation:
Institutions are very good at producing knowledge. The difficult part is what happens next.
Lejacie works in that gap: the space between important information existing and a person being able to use it. We help public-serving, regulated professions make expertise easier to reach, understand, and act on, without weakening the legal, ethical, safety, and professional boundaries that make expertise trustworthy.
Our work sits between research, law, professional practice, implementation, human factors, knowledge translation and design.
We are particularly interested in consequential professional work: places where the quality of information, judgement, implementation and human interaction materially affects people’s rights, safety, choices, opportunities or trust.
We start in law and justice and work across the public-serving professions people rely on.
At the centre of the work is a simple belief:
The professions people rely on should still work when they meet real people’s lives.
Who’s behind it
Meet Chami
Chami Rupasinghe is the founder of Lejacie and an admitted Australian lawyer (non-practising).
What does this mean for me?
Can I rely on it?
What am I supposed to do now?
For almost a decade, she has worked in the space between what professionals know and what people can actually use, especially when the knowledge comes from law, legislation, policy or research.
She kept meeting people who were handed important information and left thinking: What does this mean for me? Can I rely on it? What am I supposed to do now?
She also worked alongside professionals who wanted to help, but knew that one missing fact, overlooked exception or overconfident explanation could cause real harm. So they qualified, cautioned and referred. Often for good reason. Yet the person still had to work out the next step alone.
Meanwhile, the internet was full of people with none of those reservations. Misinformation offered neat answers. AI could produce a confident response in seconds. The careful, responsible answer was often the hardest one to find, understand or use.
Chami founded Lejacie because she did not think those were the only choices: a confident answer that misleads, or a careful answer that leaves someone stuck.
That is why she developed Safe to Say, Safe to Reach, Safe to Use: a method for helping important expertise remain accurate, properly bounded and professionally responsible, while giving a real person enough clarity to understand what matters, judge what they can rely on and work out what to do next.
Chami does not provide individual legal advice or representation.
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Chami Rupasinghe
Chami Rupasinghe is an admitted Australian lawyer (non-practising), educator and founder of Lejacie.
She works at the point where law, policy, professional expertise and technology have to become usable for real people and professionals under real conditions.
Her work has repeatedly put her in the space between what an institution has technically provided and what a person or professional can actually do with it: translating law and policy into education, turning safeguarding and prevention frameworks into practice, working on access-to-justice questions, and examining what AI changes about how people reach and use professional expertise.
That recurring problem became the starting point for Lejacie.
Her work now focuses on usable expertise, research translation, implementation, professional capability, responsible AI and the future of the professions people rely on.
How Lejacie and Chami fit together
Chami is the subject-matter specialist. Lejacie is where that specialism is investigated, developed and held.
The lab owns the methods and frameworks that come out of the research, including Safe to Say, Safe to Reach, Safe to Use, the 4:47pm Test, the Paper-to-Person Gap and the Professional Archetypes.
Chami applies those methods in her own work, in commissions for organisations, and as a specialist subcontractor or associate for other consultancies.
Chami Rupasinghe
Track record
Grounded in law, people and practice.
Chami’s work spans public-interest legal education, family violence prevention, child safety, policy, program design and public communication.
Impact and policy
- Helped design multicultural education as part of Victoria’s $3.5 million affirmative consent reform.
- Contributed to the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill 2025, tabled in Federal Parliament.
- Has spoken in the Federal and Victorian Parliaments on public-interest reform and the future of Australian institutions.
- Presented at the Law Institute of Victoria Legal Forum on the future of the profession.
- Speaker and judge at TEDxUniMelb Spark Tank.
- Published in the Law Institute Journal.
- Member of the Justice Committee of Victorian Women Lawyers, the association for women in the Victorian legal profession.
- Volunteers with Law Wise Youth, making legal information accessible for young people.
Experience
- Led government-funded, culturally responsive consent education and resource work with migrant and refugee communities: parent and carer resources, facilitator materials, evaluation approaches and partnership delivery.
- Developed multilingual parent and carer toolkits, staff professional development, disclosure-response materials, community leader briefings and child-safety education across culturally diverse communities, delivered in more than 40 languages with interpreters.
- Redeveloped and delivered legal education for frontline workers on legal issue spotting, family violence, child protection, information sharing, documentation and referral.
- Led programs, workforce resources, legal education, service tools, reporting and partnership work in high-stakes youth and community settings.
- Contributed to public-interest policy, future-generations advocacy, sector convening, legal-profession writing and future-of-practice research.
- Designed professional development, mentoring, workforce pathways, facilitator tools and leadership learning across legal, community and education contexts.
Qualifications
- Admitted as an Australian lawyer by the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2022 (non-practising)
- Juris Doctor, Monash University
- Bachelor of Arts and Science, Monash University, majoring in criminology and psychology, with a minor in philosophy
- Graduate Diploma of Project Management, RMIT University
- Performance training, NIDA (the National Institute of Dramatic Art)
Who we work with
Lejacie works alongside organisations responsible for consequential expertise and public-serving practice, including:
- legal services and justice organisations;
- regulators and government;
- professional bodies and peak organisations;
- universities and research centres;
- foundations and funders;
- community and public-serving organisations;
- conference and event organisers;
- firms and professional-service organisations;
- multidisciplinary teams working on complex public problems.
Projects can be commissioned directly, developed as research partnerships or supported through funded sector initiatives.
About Name
Why the name Lejacie?
Lejacie comes from legacy.
Not legacy as reputation.
Legacy as:
What remains useful after the person who knew it, wrote it, taught it or said it has left the room?
Good expertise should be usable by people who never met the expert.
A reform should still work after it is announced.
Research should still be useful after the report is filed.
Professional judgement should be teachable beyond the person who accumulated it.
A conference insight should still matter after everyone goes home.
A good change should outlast the project team.
That is the kind of legacy Lejacie is interested in building.
Take part
Take part in the work
- Read and share After the Law and Professionals From the Future.
- Take the Professional Archetypes Quiz and tell us whether your result rings true.
- Nominate someone for Future Professional Conversations: a person already practising the future of their field.
- Bring a problem to a Lab where the people who each understand part of it work on it together.
How we work
Four work streams.
After the Law, Legal knowledge translation, Lejacie Labs, and The future of our professions. See how Lejacie works.
Lejacie may contribute to collaborative research, practice-development, learning and implementation projects where there is a strong fit.