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Woyanne’s U.S. lawyers to do pro bono work in Ethiopia

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

DLA Piper law firm represents the fascist Woyanne regime’s interest in the U.S. for $50,000 per month.

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By Ben Moshinsky

(thelawyer.com) — DLA Piper is teaming up with Northwestern University School of Law and Accenture to donate much needed resources to the Addis Ababa Law School in Ethiopia.

DLA Piper and Accenture lawyers will travel to Addis Ababa to teach courses in tax, company law, international arbitration and corporate crime at the law school during the spring term this year. The project will last two years.

Through New Perimeter, DLA Piper’s pro bono arm, the firm will update the school’s law library and launch a new law and economic development research centre.

Sheldon Krantz, director of New Perimeter and partner in DLA Piper’s Washington office said: “Addis Ababa Law School is the premier law school in Ethiopia, but it currently faces extremely challenging circumstances. It’s severely hampered by aging facilities and a lack of financial resources that compromise the school’s ability to provide a solid legal education for its students.”

10 thoughts on “Woyanne’s U.S. lawyers to do pro bono work in Ethiopia”

  1. DLA Piper has no shame. It’s literally taking food out of the mouth of the starving in Ethiopia.

    They have gotten some bad press for selling their soul to the Ethiopian butchers; now they want to do something for their name by putting on a highly publicized, meaningless show.

    (What taxation law, by the way, are they talking of in assisting Ethiopia?)

    The $50,000 per month retainer fee is only the tip of the ice berg. Woyanne is paying big bucks to keep ferenji money flowing. Over $20 billion has come in the name of the Ethiopian people since Woyanne came to power. This is a mafia that is willing to do anything to stay in power.

    So Woyanne is willing to share some of this loot with ferenji who grease the wheels. These ferenjis are from the so-called donor community, including diplomats, world bank and UN folks, always at the ready to sing praises of Ethiopia’s rulers.

    The end result is to keep a minority regime in power. The longer they are in power, the poorer, hungrier and oppressed Ethiopia will remain.

  2. “[AAU Law school] currently faces extremely challenging circumstances. It’s severely hampered by aging facilities and a lack of financial resources that compromise the school’s ability to provide a solid legal education for its students.”

    True, the Law School faces extremely challenging cicumstances for an obvious reason; Repression of academic freedom by Woyane. DLA Piper should know better. The main problem hampering the Law School, and everything else in Ethiopia for that matter, is Woyane. I have taught in Ethiopia for five years including at AAU. The education policy is absolute farce! Woyane is committing crime against our future generations. The last thing we need at this moment is DLA Piper add salt to our wounds by going to Ethiopia to teach their “cadres” how to bend the law and mock the courts. They are going to pollute the already polluted river at the source! Pity that they call themselves “lawyers”. They are no different than Shylock who craved to take a pound of his debtor’s own flesh for defaulting on his payment.

  5. If pro bono is a service for the public good for free, then that service should start about the mascare of the 193 innocent civilians’ death of 2005. Unfortunately the law firm that represent or lobbying the interest of the ruling class is not expected to provide a $50,000,000.00 dollar service for free. HOOD SEAWKE DORO MATA.

  6. I think this is a refund of sorts for all the money that DLA Piper has managed to squeeze from Meles by promising to kill HR2003. Now that HR2003 in on track to become the law of the land, once unanimously passed by the US senate and signed by President Obama; this is their way of saying to Meles, ‘look we tried but failed, how about we train some of your cadre lawyers so they don’t look dumb and stupid every time they open their mouth about the rule of law and murder’.

  7. This is how neo-colonialism works, DLA Piper is a firm for American interests, they are taking money from Woyanne that was donated to Woyanne by US tax payers. Why not help a medical or technical school in Ethiopia for Ethiopians to run it themselves, that won’t happen though because it doesn’t serve American interests, this law school help stuff is nothing but a program to train Ethiopian lawyers to be slaves to American interests. This is a result of an evil partnership by the modern day slaves that is Woyanne and the masters in the US power elite. Once agian Elias, thank you for exposing this type of news for what it is, a tool of neo-colonialists to keep Ethiopia in bondage for a long time to come.

  8. The aging Addis Ababa Law School does not provide a sound and an acceptable legal education for the Ethiopian students because of inadequate financial resources and outdated facilities.

    Understanding the financial problems the Addis Ababa law School facing, the Northwestern University school of Law and Accenture is ready to help the Addis Ababa Law School financially. All the money Meles Seitanawi has been getting from the Ethiopian tax payers, from the gold sale and the land sale could have been used for the Addis Ababa Law School; instead, Meles Seitanawi has spent it for his war with his own people and with the people of Somalia. Now Meles wants some donation for the school from Washington; Washington can send him millions of outdated and second- hand old law school books and fill the library of the Addis Ababa law school. It could send him also more law professors that teach law according to the customs and the ways of living of the American people, not necessarily according to the ways and customs and religions of the Ethiopian people. Foreign goods, foreign equipments and foreign teachers will never bring the desired change in Ethiopia. If Ethiopians need a viable change, the essential goods, equipments, and the teachers must be Ethiopians –produced in Ethiopia. Then people can easily understand the essence of these changing ingredients and use them without doubt or hesitation because they are intrinsic to the Ethiopian culture and history.

    Getting foreign aid for everything every time, all the time, weakens the spirits of the Ethiopian people and shatters their desire to invent something new, something Ethiopian, something original that connects them to their history and beliefs. I assume there are hundreds of Ethiopian law professors abroad and at home, and it is up to the Woyanne regime to hire these well-qualified Ethiopian law professors by granting them higher salary – higher than Meles Seitanawi’s salary – and providing them free housing for their family. When these Ethiopian law professors are satisfied with what they do and with what they are getting, they will stay home, teach and produce many young Ethiopian lawyers, and these home-made Ethiopian law professors and lawyers can easily democratize the country and may not pervert justice or persuaded by the Woyanne regime to misinterpret the law of the land. This is the whole point to have well-educated and impartial lawyers, judges, and law professors.

  10. we all know the law school is in bad shape but we are capable of fixing our problem we do not need ferenjs help
    we have the man power and the resource to repar it.
    what we really want is the freedom of the people to what they want. is DLA piper going to teach how to opress people
    in the name of law and order?

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