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About us
We are a full-service law firm providing clients with the highest quality legal advice.
About our firm
Strategic legal solutions for a changing world...
Gitari N. Law Advocates is a progressive medium sized firm of Advocates having offices in Mombasa and Chuka. In addition to being Kenyan Advocates, the firm provides notary and commissioner for oaths services. The firm is comprised of several Advocates who have a collective legal practice experience amounting to over fifteen years and have over the years gained considerable experience on a wide range of practice areas. The firm has a strong administrative department that is run by a number of staff members with varying qualifications and experience. We provide highly specialized and innovative legal services to carefully selected clients.
Our Vision
Our vision is to build lasting client relationships by delivering thoughtful, reliable and innovative legal services that add value to our clients' businesses and secure legacies.
Why Choose Us
Our core values
Whether negotiating settlements or representing clients in court, we bring confidence and professionalism.
Integrity & Trust
We are committed at all times to act with honesty, independence and the highest ethical standards, earning and protecting the trust our clients place in us.
Client Partnership
We view our clients as long-term partners, taking time to understand their businesses, families, and goals in order to deliver advice that is practical, relevant, and sustainable.
Thoughtful Excellence
We are committed to approaching every matter with care, precision and depth, delivering well-considered legal solutions rather than reactive or generic advice.
Timeliness & Efficiency
We understand that time is money. Therefore, we strive to reduce our turnaround time as well as streamline our processes to achieve teamwork and maximum cost efficiency and, of course, we pass on the savings to our clients!
Innovation with purpose
We embrace innovative thinking and modern legal solutions to add measurable value to our clients’ businesses while staying grounded in sound legal judgment.
Respect & Discretion
We handle all client matters with sensitivity, confidentiality, and respect, recognizing the personal and commercial significance of every instruction.
Social Responsibility
We believe the practice of law should improve the lives of our communities. The firm takes a keen interest in pro bono work. Moreover, we encourage all our staff to contribute to social initiatives such as education, community development and access to justice.
Continuous learning & development
Clients have high expectations. We seek always to recruit the best people and to develop their skills. We also encourage them to be innovative and to find practical, better and cheaper ways to solve our clients’ problems.
Value added services
Apart from provision legal services in the above practice areas, our firm prides itself in provision of a number of value added services for its clientele. Such services include:
Regular legal updates
Our partners continuously monitor developments in the areas in which they practice and compile notable legal changes that may affect our clients’ business. We circulate the updates to all our clients.
Handling Services
Our firm offers an array of handling services including immigration, licensing, tax and other regulatory/ compliance return filing, tendering and procurement services on behalf of our clients with the Kenya Revenue Authority, National Social Security Fund, Social Health Authority, Capital Markets Authority, Retirement Benefits Authority, Directorate of Industrial Training, Registrar of Companies etc.
Company Secretarial Services
The firm is able to offer company secretarial, notary public and commissioner of oath services to our clients.
Immigration Advisory and Handling Services
We offer a full range of specialist immigration services to ensure that any problem you have can be dealt with. We are able to provide considered and realistic migration advice and legal services for work visa/permits, business immigration, property and investments, citizenship applications, family, child and dependant visas, refugee and humanitarian issues. Also, we have considerable experience in handling cases with the immigration services through internal reviews, tribunals and the Courts.
Tax Services
Our firm specializes in providing expert tax advisory as a value added service for our clients. We are able to handle: Tax compliance, Tax advisory, Tax reviews, audit and “health” checks, Management of KRA tax audits, Representation in Local Committee, VAT Tribunal, Customs Valuation Appeals, Tribunal and other Tax Appellate process, International Executive Services such as tax planning, Cross border tax advisory service, Client information services: updates on legislative changes, tax developments and budget briefs, Lobbying etc.
Employment and Industrial Relations Services
Our firm supports our clients by providing support in Employment and Industrial relations. Over the recent years, the landscape of labour laws has considerably changed. Quite a number of obligations have been imposed by statute on employers and there are attendant sanctions for non-compliance – including imprisonment.
Legal Audits & Governance Audits
Our firm is able to undertake legal audits of our clients’ processes and functions. Moreover, we are able to train relevant staff on how carry out routine checks and audit processes to forestall incurring of unnecessary liability.
Charitable, Not for Profit & Religious Organisations
Our firm has considerable experience in advising charitable, not for profit and religious organizations. Our advice ranges from registration process and documentation, regulatory compliance, tax advice, labour law matters, court representation and advice on contracting processes.
Our setup
About our Offices
The office locations are quite convenient and designed to increase effectiveness in management of litigation as well as provide serenity required to hold conducive meetings. Our Mombasa Offices are at City Mall, Nyali within a serene part of the coastal town and our Chuka offices are located away from the hustle and bustle of the city and also in close proximity to many other essential business and social amenities.
Advanced networked information systems
case management systems
client billing systems
elaborate document processing machines
electronic archiving facilities
law statutes
law reports
legal texts and reference books
encyclopedias of Forms and Precedents
subscription and access to online resources
Payment
Mode of charging fees
We charge our fees based on the Advocates Remuneration Order, time [hourly] or on retainer bases. Usually the basis of our charges will be set out in the letter confirming our acceptance of client’s instructions to act. Where appropriate, factors set out in the Advocates Remuneration Order may be taken into account, for instance complexity, value and importance of the matter being handled.
Sums incurred by us on our clients’ behalf such as stamp duty, search fees, agent’s fees and all other disbursements will be recharged in addition, as will expenses incurred on faxes, courier, emails, telephone calls and copying.
Value added tax where applicable, presently at 16%, is chargeable on fees and most disbursements [other than stamp duty and government fees]. Our quotations and estimates do not include VAT unless otherwise expressly stated.
We may submit interim bills during the course of handling matters. Also, we may at any time require from you a deposit on account of anticipated costs and disbursements. Such deposits are, in the normal way, held against payment of the final account to be rendered to you and the client is expected to settle interim bills without resort to the deposit.
Professional negligence indemnity cover
We have taken out an appropriate Professional Negligence Indemnity Cover in respect of a broad category of matters handled by the firm. However, if need be, this can be enhanced at request to suit the peculiar needs of the requesting client or matter being handled.
