Studying law is extremely stressful and challenging. It is even worse when you are unsure what exactly it is you are slogging through law school for. Why spend those long hours in the library hunched over volumes of law reports? Why the unsatisfactory social life? After more than six years of legal studies, what next? Being a lawyer, of course! But what kind of lawyer? Will I be happy in the end? What really is my purpose in life and how do I make sense of it all? Many of us have likely been through varying degrees of this wormhole of conflict and mid-study crisis before. 

At Lex Evolve, one of our three main avenues of impact is to pair young lawyers with law students. The lawyers will mentor the students over a period of time, usually sharing their thoughts and experiences, providing perspective, helping the student to identify opportunities for academic growth and generally guiding the student to avoid the mistakes they made when they were in law school. Students struggling to find meaning and purpose in their law studies or prospective legal careers will simply have a form of outlet in the young lawyer, someone who knows exactly what they are going through and is willing to be a support system.

We at Lex Evolve will endeavour to pair students with young lawyers who share the Lex Evolve mission and are passionate about contributing to the growth of Ghanaian legal education by helping a student thrive in their studies. We aim to set broad parameters to guide the attorney-student mentorship but we will leave the attorney and the mentor to carve out their goals and modalities of their relationship and work out how best to achieve those goals.

If you are a young lawyer or a law student interested in our mentorship programme, we encourage you to register with us as a Volunteer or Student respectively under the “Get Involved” section above.

[We have attained the required target number for our first cohort of mentees on this program. We will open up registration for the second cohort in due course]