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The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) consists of the regulatory and disciplinary bodies for practising attorneys in South Africa. Attorneys are required to register at the relative provincial law society where they practice in terms of the Attorneys Act, 1979.
Werksmans Attorneys is a South African law firm [3] [4] with offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Stellenbosch. [5] It was established in 1917. In 1993, Werksmans was one of the founding members of LEX Africa, currently the oldest and largest African network.
The Big Five law firms is a term informally used in South Africa to refer to those law firms which, collectively, are perceived to be the leading law firms based in South Africa. The following firms are usually seen as comprising the "Big Five" (listed alphabetically): [ discuss ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Webber Wentzel is an African law firm headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. The firm operates in a collaborative alliance with global law firm, Linklaters. [7] The firm is considered a member of the "Big Five law firms" of leading South African law firms. The firm is a level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) contributor. [8]
Countries (in pink) which share the mixed South African legal system. South Africa has a 'hybrid' or 'mixed' legal system, [1] formed by the interweaving of a number of distinct legal traditions: a civil law system inherited from the Dutch, a common law system inherited from the British, and a customary law system inherited from indigenous Africans (often termed African Customary Law, of which ...
ENS (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs) is Africa's largest law firm. [4] ENS currently has over 620 practitioners and was established over 100 years ago. The firm specialises in all commercial areas of Law, Tax, Forensics and IP. The firm is a Level 2 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) contributor. [5]
Montgomery J ‘Free access to primary legal documents in Southern Africa’ 15(1) Organisation of SA Law Libraries (OSALL) Newsletter, Nov 2004. Retrieved 2 May 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2012. Section on SAFLII in Greenleaf, G Legal Information Institutes and the Free Access to Law Movement , GlobaLex website, February 2008.
The Wilfred and Jules Kramer Law Building, named after two major benefactors of the faculty, is located on UCT's Middle Campus in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Since 2000, the bottom two floors of the Kramer Building house the Brand van Zyl Law Library, which became a separate branch of the UCT Libraries in 1962. [9]