Kenya's Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) has publicly supported a recent High Court order blocking private lawyers and law firms from representing government entities. This ruling suspends their engagement, procurement, and payment by public bodies pending the resolution of a constitutional petition.

• COTU labeled the outsourcing of legal services as a "serious governance failure" and a "waste of public resources," citing billions of Kenyan shillings spent on private firms instead of being used for public services.
• Secretary-General Francis Atwoli stated that outsourcing external legal services demoralizes in-house lawyers and threatens the sustainability of public institutions.
• The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has opposed the order, calling it a "sustained effort to marginalize private legal practitioners" from public sector work.