TLS was established with several statutory objectives, including :-

1. To maintain and improve the standards of conduct and learning of the legal profession in Tanzania;
2. To facilitate the acquisition of legal knowledge by members of the legal profession and others;
3. To assist the Government and the Courts in all matters affecting legislation, and the administration and practice of the law in Tanzania;
4. To represent, protect and assist members of the legal profession in Tanzania as regards conditions of practice and otherwise;
5. To protect and assist the public in Tanzania in all matters touching, ancillary or incidental to the law;
6. To acquire, hold, develop or dispose of properties of all kinds, whether movable or immovable and to derive capital or income from them, for all or any of the foregoing objects;
7. To raise or borrow money for all or any of the foregoing objects in any manner and upon any security which may from time to time be determined by the Society;
8. To invest and deal with money of the Society not immediately required in any manner which may from time to time be determined by the Society;
9. To do all other things which are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the foregoing objects or any of them.