Michèle Marais

Michèle matriculated from D.F. Malan High School in Bellville, after which she spent a year in Germany as a Rotary exchange student. She obtained her BA degree from the University of Stellenbosch (with English, German and French as majors), and then qualified with an LLB and LLM degree from the University of Cape Town. Her LLM thesis focused on the protection of purchasers in newly developed sectional title schemes.

Michèle joined Leon Frank in 1992 and became a partner in the firm in 1994 after her admission as an attorney. As a qualified conveyancer and notary public, her practice focuses on all areas of property law, including notarial work and bonds, as well as wills and estates. She has worked closely with developers on large property development projects, with a particular emphasis on the opening of sectional title registers and sectional title transfers.

In 2002 she spent three months in Paris at the invitation of the Paris Bar, which offered French-speaking lawyers from abroad the opportunity to get better acquainted with the French legal system. Michèle is fluent in German and French and will gladly assist French- and German-speaking clients in their mother tongue.