Twenty-two years of taking the long view on hard problems in Botswana.
2004 · A Gaborone conference room.
Babuseng Attorneys was founded by Tebogo Babuseng on a bet that clients with consequential problems would pay for counsel that was small enough to be candid and senior enough to be right.
Twenty-two years later, that bet is the whole strategy. We grow only as fast as we can mentor; we add only the practices our clients ask us to add. The firm is thirty-one lawyers across three offices in Botswana, and it will never be substantially larger.
It is a particular kind of practice, and it is not for everyone — neither lawyers nor clients. We are at peace with that.
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Senior attention by default.
Partners do partner work. Associates are mentored, not deployed.
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The first answer should be the right one.
We would rather take an extra day than send a draft we are not proud of.
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Confidence is earned, not promised.
We refer matters out when another firm is the better fit for the client.
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Conflict-checked, no exceptions.
We turn down work, including profitable work, when the math doesn't work for an existing client.
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Stewardship of the firm itself.
Profitability is a constraint; it is not the goal.