What We Do
Civil Litigation & Criminal Defense
Essentially, the legal services we provide vary from legal advice to representing clients in courts.
Our experts ensure that individuals and businesses effectively navigate legal complexities prior to venturing into any legal actions with a view to optimizing the chances of successful civil or criminal litigations including those involving labor issues.
Property Development and Investment
We help you maximize your potential for successful investment and development in Ethiopia’s real estate landscape.
Be it in providing legal briefing in pertinent investment laws; handling of tax complications and company management; drafting of real estate contracts or resolving of disputes; we prioritize legal actions that are advantageous to developers and investors.
Media Law
We provide expert legal advice on all aspects of media legislations and their implementation.
This includes sufficient investigation of both legislative institutional arrangements pertaining to the media law as per the client’s needs for their effective implementation in or outside of courts.
We ensure quality legal representation that seek out the best legal remedies available.
Labor Law
Our trusted ability to secure the best possible outcomes in the most sophisticated labor cases has earned years of attorney-client relationship with numerous organizations. We have the experience to steer you through labor litigations while also availing adequate skills to identify and eliminate potential risks to help avert possible legal dilemmas.
We leverage dependable labor practice and knowledge to strategize and foresee next steps. We help negotiate employee contracts and benefits with the required provision of legal advice on employee compensations; disciplinary measures; restructuring; redundancy; and suspension due from temporary or permanent closure of organizations.
CSO Laws
Profit-based businesses and non-profit entities alike are in constant need of legal consultation and/or representation to meet changing frameworks of operation. Avoidance of penalty risks and other forms of liabilities requires among others, up-to-date information of changing laws and regulations.
Regulatory compliance issues being part of the common concerns of civil society organizations (CSOs), our office provides a wide range of services in relation to CSO Laws in Ethiopia. This includes anticipating and adapting to changing regulatory compliances in the areas of governance; registration and renewal of license; reporting and disbursement of funds; property acquisition and transfers; employment and tax laws; etc. with complementary provision of legal memo of explanatory notes on legislative revisions and impacts.
The decades of practical experience and research-based knowledge developed has earned our office core specialization in the area of CSO (NGO) laws while also enhancing the quality of our services with no room for looking back.
Debebe Hailegebriel was one of the legal drafters of the 2018 CSO Law currently in place. He also served in the capacity of Chairperson of the Legal Team assigned to review the draft.
Arbitration
We provide expert legal advice on all aspects of media legislations and their implementation.
This includes sufficient investigation of both legislative institutional arrangements pertaining to the media law as per the client’s needs for their effective implementation in or outside of courts.
We ensure quality legal representation that seek out the best legal remedies available.
Legislative Drafting and Policy Review
Our legal office offers solid legislative drafting and policy analysis services.
We manage legislative and policy review projects including delivery of legal briefings on implementation challenges pertaining to draft documents for appropriate reviews prior to adoption.
This is an integral part of our advocacy work towards the development of improved laws and policies that impact on-going democratic reforms.
Legal Research and Training
In partnership with specialized legal and other professional experts, we transfer knowledge and practical experience through our research and training programs.
We conduct researches and offer capacity building workshops with first class learning experience.
Further, we build on the research findings to serve as basis for collaboration with different governmental and non-governmental actors including media houses to promote human rights, rule of law and governance issues.
We also advocate for policy and legislative changes through awareness raising and public education. An illustration of such programs designed and led by DHLO are Chilot, Awde Hig, and Habegar Debates.
