Investing in Africa's Future
Supporting Firms
In this difficult economic climate when Pro Bono initiatives are being cut from the budgets of many law firms, we are greatly encouraged that ILFA continues to be supported by leading UK and American law firms. The programme would have been impossible without their generous agreement to host candidates.
A visit to our sponsoring firms' websites shows the range and depth of their commitment to pro bono work and corporate social responsibility. ILFA's approach is simply to invite law firms to open up their everyday practice and the highly sophisticated training programmes already allied to it so as to harness activities already occurring in the ordinary line of professional practice in a way that will automatically propagate practice skills amongst lawyers from all over the African continent. Along the way we also hope to seed friendships and connections between the candidates and the host firms which may, as time goes by, help to develop the commercial and legal congress between London as a world financial centre and the emerging markets from which our candidates are drawn.