LEGAL PROFESSION
SA’s young legal elite want African action
Young lawyers recognise that Africa gives them serious experience
SA’s young legal elite are joining firms that allow them to work on large projects in other African countries as they look to enhance their profiles and gain work experience. Many of the largest law practices in the country say they have to offer secondment programmes and African opportunities to get the best law students to choose them. "Young lawyers believe Africa is where big corporate law firms can grow over the long term. They recognise that Africa gives them serious experience. You often hear them in recruitment interviews say they want to do challenging legal work in parts of Africa," says Lebitso Mokgatle, HR executive at ENS Africa. "If you don’t offer opportunities on the continent and the support they need, you may lose strong candidates to other firms," she says. DLA Piper, relatively new to SA’s legal market, having opened its first office in Sandton in June 2016, says it spent more than a decade building relationships with African law firms because it knows legal tale...
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