Almost 4.4 thousand new attorneys have been added to the Registry of Attorneys since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The Registry now includes more than 53 thousand active lawyers. However, the number of new lawyers is decreasing every year. 60% of all active lawyers are men.
53,361 attorneys are currently listed in the Register of Attorneys 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 practicing since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
There are more men among lawyers in Ukraine – 60% of the total number. The share of women is 40%.
Most lawyers are registered in Kyiv region – 9,127 or 17% of the total number and in Kyiv – 5,682 or 10.6%. They are followed by Dnipropetrovs’k 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 attorneys’ licenses since the beginning of the full-scale war has been issued in Zakarpattia (+15.%), Vinnytsia (+14.6%), Odesa (+14.6%), and Rivne (+13.8%) regions.
It is worth noting that the place of issuance of the license and the actual place of work of the lawyer may differ.
As a reminder, the Register of Attorneys is available in Opendatabot, where you can find a specialist for your request. There you can easily find out about the workload and productivity of a lawyer, the categories and list of cases he or she handles.
https://opendatabot.ua/analytics/advocates-2024
