Established in 2000, Nolte Smit is a leading Eastern Cape law firm focused on understanding business in order to achieve the best legal outcome for its clients. Nolte Smit fosters business partnerships to best advise its clients on corporate and commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution matters.
The firm is built on a solid foundation of insightful and innovative deal structuring and legal advice, as well as a keen ability to understand the greater economic forces of the marketplace. Nolte Smit offers a gateway into the Eastern Cape, with its Grahamstown office conveniently situated at the seat of the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa.
Unique internal structures of the firm ensure that the relationship between its individual lawyers is co-operative and efficient, which is to the special advantage of clients. Our business values embrace unparalleled levels of service and expertise and we strive to maintain a cutting edge approach to our business through the quality of staff, training and support systems
We aim to maintain long term relationships with our clients. Consensus is achieved by means of informed decision making. We believe in our clients and endeavour to grow with them.

What we stand for

We are a young and dynamic law firm that consistently strives to achieve excellence in whatever we undertake. We are focused on providing the best legal outcome for our clients and pride ourselves on our professional, approachable and friendly legal service.
Our practice is based on honesty, ethics and hard work and clients will find that we are always willing to go the extra mile.

Terms of appointment

All work we do is governed by our terms of appointment as contained on our Client Information Sheet that is completed by new clients. Prospective clients are advised to familiarise themselves with these terms of appointment in order to ensure a mutually beneficial attorney-client relationship.