THE Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) says there are 3,500 lawyers countrywide against 20 million Zambians, with over 600 individuals in the legal profession currently unemployed. And LAZ president Lungisani Zulu has expressed excitement over Home Affairs Minister Jack Mwiimbu’s encouragement to the police to heed LAZ’s criticism. Speaking on HOT FM’s Breakfast Show, Monday, Zulu said unless there are bigger firms attracting good business in the country, the challenge of unemployment in the legal profession will persist. “It’s quite a big problem. The numbers are in excess of 600 from the survey report. That for us gave us a question mark about how we’ve been doing things before to take care of this problem. So the plans we have...

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