About KMA Advocates
M/S KMA –Advocates provides legal representation across a wide range of practice areas that are critical to the success of our clients. We practice at the very top of the legal profession in Uganda and offer a cutting-edge blend of capabilities that enables us to handle deals and cases of any size and complexity. Today, businesses face greater scrutiny and more complex issues than ever before. With a practice un-surpassed in depth and scope by any other noteworthy firm in our league, we have the ability to foresee obstacles, seize opportunities and get the case resolved or the deal done—and the experience and know-how to prevent it from being undone.
We are a law firm of four (4) Partners and one (1) Associate Partner, supported by a strong and efficient team of five (5) Associate Advocates and two (2) legal Assistants as well as a support staff team in our Accounts, Secretarial and Postage / Delivery departments. We are a dynamic firm whose partners have been in Commercial and other fields of legal practice in Uganda for years ranging from 11 to 20 years. Out of this experience, we have built the necessary competencies and high levels efficiency with integrity
We are primarily a Commercial law firm, with tested experience in diverse fields of Commercial Law and Practice including Banking & Securities, Corporate law and governance, Legal audits of Companies and Business entities, Mergers and Acquisitions, Negotiation and Mediation , Intellectual Property law – (Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights, Industrial Designs, Utility models, Plant Breeder rights etc) Communications law, Liquidation and Debt Collection, Conveyance, Property Management law among others.
HISTORY
A Legacy of Excellence and Service
Our wide range of expertise means that we can provide support for our clients in all areas of their business and private life. Many of our lawyers are leaders in their field and our practice areas are highly ranked by the legal directories.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Commitment to Quality: We are committed to providing consistently top-notch legal services, as nothing less will suffice for the exigent matters our clients bring to us.Clients do not come to us with easy questions, simple cases, or routine trans-actions. Clients come to us because of our well-merited reputation for outstanding service delivered promptly. We pride ourselves on finding innovative solutions to complex problems that require us to draw on our full range of expertise and experience. The delivery of these services in a fashion that meets our standard of excellence and the needs of our clients requires substantial effort by all the lawyers in the firm, from the newest of associates to the most senior of our partners. To that end, our partners do legal work and do not merely manage the work of others. Their direct involvement is the best assurance that our work on every project will be of the 3 quality our clients have come to expect of us.
Client Service: To us, ?client service? means more than providing unequaled legal service and being responsive to our clients’ business needs. Our objective is to be-come trusted business advisors that clients can depend upon now and in the future. We also believe that how we deliver our legal service—meaning our clients’ overall experience with us—is as important as the service itself. Our firm-wide commitment to principles of service excellence recognizes that every staff member contributes to the firm’s success and is demonstrated in the quality of every interaction clients have with every person in the firm.
Entrepreneurial Spirit: As business and technology have become more complex, the law has also become more complex. The globalization of the economy, the advent of the Internet, and the overwhelming importance of technology and intellectual property have transformed our lives. The impact of these changes upon the legal profession has been revolutionary: law firms must have greater vision, greater expertise, greater breadth and depth, and greater commitment. We operate much like our clients, using fresh and inventive approaches and benefiting from the collaborative strength of multi-disciplinary teams. Many of our lawyers have degrees and first-hand experience in business and government. Innovation has always been a key element in achieving and sustaining our progress. Staying ahead means not only participating, but more importantly, playing a leading role in shaping change.
Collaboration and Collegiality: We believe the best results are achieved by drawing on the exceptional talents and varied experience of all of our lawyers. Accordingly, we share our time, ideas, and inspiration with our colleagues. We view every client as a client of the firm, not of an individual lawyer, and our lawyers reach out naturally to other lawyers in the firm with the necessary experience to meet a client’s needs. We enjoy working hard together as team; we value excellence and our reward is loyal clients who recognize the difference that results from our dedication. Because our clients know they can count on us, we are also rewarded with exciting, often groundbreaking, work. Our mutually respectful culture also means that we are always pleasant to deal with, even in the most difficult and high-pressure situations.
Public Service: Because the law is still a profession as well as a business, lawyers have special obligations to the administration of justice and the development of the law. We encourage our lawyers to meet these obligations through pro bono work, government service, service to the bar, and teaching. We also urge our lawyers to write and speak on legal issues and to participate in the affairs of their larger communities. While we enjoy and are proud of our economic success, we take equal pride in our pro bono activities.
Exceptionally Talented Lawyers: The livelihood of the firm is the recruitment of exceptionally talented lawyers. We hire lawyers with diverse backgrounds but with the common trait of outstanding academic and personal achievements. We then seek to make the most of their talents by giving them the training, support, and challenging opportunities they need to become accomplished lawyers of the first rank.
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