Accountancy, legal bodies strike partnership to empower law students

An agreement to provide students with internship, help them become business ready has been sealed by Zambia Centre for Accountancy Studies (ZCAS) and Corpus Legal Practitioners (CLP).

The collaboration includes legal research, financial support for school activities and retention of students on internship and possible permanent employment.

The partnership represents a significant step forward in its collective efforts to promote legal education and provide practical training to aspiring legal professionals in the country.

This is according To ZCAS acting vice chancellor Kelvin Kayombo at the signing ceremony in Lusaka on Tuesday.

Kayombo said the MoU would allow the university and CLP collaborate effectively in research and development of suitable training programmes and methodologies to ensure that it produces the best law graduates.

“By combining the academic experience of CLP, we will be able to create innovative solutions and programmes that will help our students succeed in their legal careers.

“This further extends to improve the capabilities of ours lectures by keeping them abreast of emergent best practice among the legal fraternity,” he said.

Kayombo also implored the representatives of both institutions who had been tasked to manage the MoU to ensure that it was actioned for the benefit of the students.

At the same event, CLP Managing Partner, Sydney Chisenga, said the institution had continually demarked itself by the significant contribution it has made to the higher education sector in the law discipline over the 27 years of its existence with a quest to facilitate research and development in knowledge sharing.

Chisenga said the purpose of the MoU was to deepen the relationship between the two institutions whose goal is to provide exposure and give candidates legal experience for the purpose of corporate growth for both institutions.

“We value the welfare of our team members and pride ourselves on being supportive employers. Together with ZCAS, we are committed to advocating diversity and inclusion at the firm and providing exceptional mentoring for the early talent from diverse backgrounds,” he said.

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