DLA Piper, in partnership with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim (BI), visited the University of Zambia (UNZA) School of Law in April as part of the firm’s global pro bono initiative, New Perimeter. Through New Perimeter, an international team of 10 DLA Piper and BI lawyers provided a weeklong training on legal writing and analysis to about 90 law students at UNZA. (English is the primary language in Zambia and at BI.) This was the second year of the training program, which was developed in close collaboration with the law school faculty.
UNZA is the premier law school in Zambia, but it is severely under-resourced. In addition to the training, the DLA Piper Foundation issued grants to UNZA to go toward the purchase of law books and technical equipment. BI donated over 40 used laptop computers and also offered a fully paid internship opportunity to one UNZA student, Suwema Banda, in Germany at BI’s headquarters this summer. The internship lasted five weeks. Banda worked for the BI legal department based in Ingelheim, outside of Frankfurt. She also traveled to BI’s offices in Vienna and Barcelona.
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