East Africa Law Society

The East Africa Law Society (EALS) is the regional Bar Association of East Africa. It was formed in 1995 and incorporated in Tanzania. The EALS has over 42,000 individual members, and also has seven national Bar associations as members: the Law Society of Kenya, the Tanganyika Law Society, the Uganda Law Society, the Zanzibar Law Society, the Rwanda Bar Association, the Burundi Bar Association, the South Sudan Bar Association and Ethiopian Federal Advocates Association. The Ethiopian Federal Advocates Association is the latest Bar Association to join the Society.