About our work

New Perimeter provides an intensive week-long seminar on legal writing and analysis to law students at the University of Zambia (UNZA) School of Law in Lusaka, Zambia. The course focuses on legal writing skills, including general principles of writing as well as instruction on how to research, formulate and support a strong legal argument. It emphasizes learning by doing, including active class participation and interactive exercises. The training module was developed by New Perimeter specifically for UNZA in response to particular needs expressed by the law faculty.  Starting in 2020, New Perimeter has teamed with in-house counsel at Pfizer to provide an intensive online legal writing and analysis training to graduate law students at UNZA.

Key deliverables

• Deliver a week-long seminar on legal writing and analysis to undergraduate law students at the University of Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia
• Provide curriculum development assistance to UNZA law faculty for the inaugural master of laws program in advanced legal skills
• Provide a week-long, online training program on legal drafting to graduate law students

Key facts

• In 2020, at the request of the Law School, New perimeter pivoted to supporting UNZA then-new LLM (graduate) program focused on practical lawyering skills with curriculum development and an intensive week-long legal writing and analysis training. This online LLM program was offered in 2020, 2021, and 2022.
• More than 750 UNZA students have been trained and completed this course.
• DLA Piper Africa Firm Chibesakunda & Co. Advocates has participated in the project since its inception.
• In-house counsel from Pfizer joined the project in 2018.
• In-house counsel from Boehringer Ingelheim participated in the project in 2014-17.
• In-house counsel from Stanbic Bank participated for several years in the project.

Featured staff

Featured lawyers: Janet Legrand, Melissa Johnston, Siân Croxon, Jayne Anderson Risk, Stu Morrow
Program managers: Sara K. Andrews, Crystal Doyle