Pro bono Legal Service

Pro Bono Legal Services connects volunteer Lawyers and legal services organizations with low-income community members including the most vulnerable groups like IDPs, hos community poor people, men and women aged poor families that need of legal services particularity remotely hard to reach area and big cities in Somalia through face-to-face legal counseling to protect their rights.

Community member can come to a convenient local site, such as GL HQ office Garowe and other branches of the country to seek Legal service. The consultations are supervised and managed by a legal service organization that provides training, logistics, and risk management support. This Pro Bono Project has spent many years filling in the gaps in legal services to the low-income native Somalis and residents of Somalia particularity those who living Puntland state by making access to justice available.

Benefits to Community Members:

Convenience – A community member can go to a convenient local site, such as a GL office or other community center, to seek advice and services

Affordability – Legal advice is provided at no cost to community members, lawyers donate their pro bono time to help community members with general legal questions

Quality – Receive quality and legal advice from experienced Lawyers from GL and across border.

According to Puntland Lawyers act GL team believes that it’s our responsibility to give back to the community and help those who have no access to legal service due to us full-service law firm, our pro bono practice allows our lawyers to fulfill their professional and ethical responsibility and make those services available and accessible to those who would otherwise be deprived of legal representation.

Our growing pro bono legal services focus on Poor marginalized people such IDPs and host community civic, community, non-profit and educational institutions affecting members with limited   We are committed to supporting our community wherever we can. We set out to be part of a positive social change through collaboration with justice enforcement team and humanitarian organizations working on protection of people rights

GL lawyers embody the network’s core values – they are Pan African, down to earth, practical and committed to excellence. The firm exemplifies these qualities by being accessible and committed to providing pro bono services of the same quality as billable services.

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