During martial law, the number of lawyers increased by almost 4,500
23 September 2024 13:29
Almost 4.4 thousand new lawyers have been added to the Register of Advocates since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. Currently, the Register includes more than 53 thousand active lawyers. This is reported by Opendatabot with reference to the data of the Unified State Register, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
53,361 lawyers are currently listed in the Register of Lawyers as of the end of August 2024. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Register has been replenished with 4,370 new lawyers.
In general, the number of new lawyers is decreasing every year. While in 2020, 5,124 new lawyers were registered, this year the number is 1,708.
1,773 lawyers have temporarily suspended their activities, and 8 have stopped working altogether since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
There are more men among the lawyers in Ukraine – 60% of the total number. The share of women is 40%.
The largest number of lawyers is registered in Kyiv region – 9,127 or 17% of the total number and in Kyiv – 5,682 or 10.6%. They are followed by Dnipro region – 4,016 lawyers (7.5%), Odesa region – 3,992 (7.5%) and Donetsk region – 3,932 lawyers (7.4%).
The largest number of new lawyers’ licences since the beginning of the full-scale war has been issued in Zakarpattia (15.0%), Vinnytsia (14.6%), Odesa (14.6%) and Rivne (13.8%) regions.
It is worth noting that the place of issue of the licence and the actual place of work of the lawyer may differ.
