Desai Law Group hosted six high school students over a period of four days, for its Future Lawyers Programme. The Programme, which will be held annually, is aimed at providing the students with (i) an insight into the legal profession and (ii) information relating to studying law.
This year, we provided students with the experience of being mentored by associates at the firm, partaking in presentations by various associates from each practicing area, such as, corporate and commercial, litigation, property and operations. Students also had the opportunity to visit the Botswana Stock Exchange.
At the end of the Programme, students had to apply their advocacy skills that they acquired through training sessions with the candidate attorneys, to represent their clients during a mock trial. Upon completion of the mock trial, a winning team, consisting of some students and some DLG attorneys, emerged victorious and all students on the Programme received certificates of participation in addition to certificates to the students who were part of the winning mock trial team.
