Young Lawyers Forum

Information on the Young Lawyers Forum of the Ukrainian Bar Association

Target audience:

Young ambitious and motivated lawyers who begin a career in law

Areas of activity:

• Organization and holding events dedicated to professional and personal development;
• Informing on internships, studying abroad ( LLM, PhD programs) and other professional directing and personal development programs;
• Cooperation with international youth organizations within Forum’s activity and professional organizations, which include youth divisions.

Goals:

• To promote young lawyer’s successful career;
• To teach reconciling work and private life properly;
• To create conditions for communication between young lawyers and their senior colleagues;
• To promote personal development of every young lawyer;
• To intensify participation of young lawyers in the activity and development of the Ukrainian Bar Association;
• To increase number of joinings to the Ukrainian Bar Association after high school graduation.

Forum formats:

Formal events which includes meetings, seminars, workshops, trainings, round tables on:

• time-management;
• planning;
• skills of negotiations of various types;
• public speaking;
• rules of successful career growth in a law firm or another company ( presentation skills, teamwork, customer service, effective communication with the leader / mentor, colleagues, etc.);
• professional technical skills (writing contracts, memoranda, legal search and analysis, etc.).

Informal events.

Order of joining:

Automatic joining of the actual members of the Ukrainian Bar Association and persons, who apply for a membership, if they are under the «young lawyer» category, to the Young Lawyers Forum.  

Advantages:

• discounts on participation in paid events of the Ukrainian Bar Association;
• discounts on enrollment fee payment;
• a right to initiate own event within the subject of activity of the Forum.