LSK member portal: membership and practising certificate renewal
Law Society of Kenya · sources read 4 Oct 2026
Log in to the LSK portal (online.lsk.or.ke), fill, sign and upload the Declaration Form and pay. Once LSK approves, the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary issues your digital practising certificate, which is emailed to you.
- Fee
- We couldn't confirm a fee from the official page. Check it there before you pay.
- How long
- By law, within 14 days of the Registrar receiving the application
- Where
- Online on the LSK member portal (online.lsk.or.ke); the certificate is issued through the Judiciary Advocates Management System (jams.court.go.ke)
What you need
- Signed Declaration Form (filled and uploaded on the LSK portal)
Steps
- Log in to your LSK portal account (Advocate Login on lsk.or.ke), then fill, sign and upload the Declaration Form and make the payment.
- LSK reviews it. Once approved, LSK sends your application to the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary.
- The Chief Registrar checks it and issues your digital practising certificate through JAMS.
- Get the certificate by email, or download it from My Certificates on JAMS or from the LSK portal.
Watch out
- The certificate is yearly and runs from 1 January to 31 December, so renew it every year.
- The Judiciary charges nothing for the certificate, but you must first pay LSK's certificate fee and the LSK and Advocates Benevolent Association subscriptions. LSK and the ABA set these amounts.
- If you have gone 12 months or more without a certificate (and in some other cases), you must give the Chief Registrar and LSK at least six weeks' written notice before applying.
Who can apply
- Advocates of the High Court of Kenya. By law you must be an LSK member to practise as an advocate.
- Newly admitted advocates get an LSK portal account after admission and apply for their first certificate there.
- Any advocate who practises: practising law without an annual certificate is an offence.
Official sources (5)
- Advocates judiciary.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- Membership lsk.or.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- The Law Society of Kenya (home page menu) lsk.or.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- Advocates Act (Cap. 16), Revised Edition 2012, as published by LSK lsk.or.ke · read 4 Oct 2026
- Law Society of Kenya - Member Portal online.lsk.or.ke · read 4 Oct 2026