Dear Rookie Advocate, This month we want to go right back to the basics. What do lawyers really do for a living? Now before your mind tempts you to give the default lawyer response “It depends”, I will help focus your mind and give you our version. Lawyers read, write and speak for a …
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Dear Rookie Advocate, I wrote this post with a specific objective in mind: to inspire action in the areas of social justice, digital transformation, innovation, and sustainability. While this may differ from what you are accustomed to reading here, I hope to provide a clear and concise summary that prompts further action. Let’s begin by …
Dear Rookie Advocate, This year’s International Women’s Day United Nations theme DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality could not be more apt. This theme makes a rallying call to have everyone pay closer attention to the need for inclusive and transformative technology and to improve digital literacy among women and girls. What does this …
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Dear Rookie Advocate, This is my adaptation of Lisa Fairfax’s speech for a Ketanji in the making. Allow me to introduce to you a Rockstar that has already been cracking some ceilings and is well on her way to shattering many others. Now before you argue that a Law Association of Zambia election nomination is …
While we laugh and shrug off the memes, something else is happening. History is being written in that very moment. A legacy is being built. What reputation has been handed down to us? What reputation will we hand down to those that are coming after us?
The World Economic Forum lists ‘Emotional Intelligence’ as one of the top 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Empathy is an integral part of emotional intelligence. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines empathy as: “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also: the capacity for this…” So maybe you are sold on the idea of empathy but …
Dear Rookie, This month we are excited to feature the remarkable Kondwa Sakala-Chibiya, a Rockstar who wears many hats. Her multifaceted experience has afforded her invaluable insights that she ever so graciously agreed to share with us. Kondwa is the Managing Partner of JB Sakala and Company (Lusaka). She broke the proverbial glass ceiling when …
Dear Unemployed Rookie, In May we shared a few tips to help with your job search. Guess what?! This month we have Ms. Natasha Chiumya a brilliant Rock-star Advocate of almost 20 years experience weighing in on this pressing topic. She is the Managing Partner of Folotiya & Chiumya Legal Practitioners and former Deputy Chairperson …
I know that you are feeling cheated! ‘Who moved your cheese?’ Who flipped the script? Isn’t your newly acquired gown supposed to cloak you with instant success and your wig a worthy crown?! I know that it feels like a steeplechase with no finish line because you are still jumping hurdles. Good news is you …
Long before the Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) was formulated, legal education was primarily by apprenticeship. I can imagine that in those days mentorship of young lawyers was a natural consequence of their legal training. In the legal education world of today if mentorship is not intentionally grafted into a lawyer’s training and sustained throughout …
