Litigation/Dispute Resolution

Responsibilities:• Managing and leading a team of lawyers to achieve the short and long term goals of the firm.• Review reports and drafts, and generally supervise the output of staff of the firm.• Responsible for vetting contracts between the firm and her clients.• Responsible for liaising with regulatory agencies, corporate organizations, and clients in the interest of the firm.• Carry out due diligence and legal risk assessments on behalf of the firm and clients.• Oversee the keeping of records, implementation of tasks, execution of briefs, and submission of reports/updates.• Act as liaison between the partners and the staff of the firm.• Proofread documents to ensure accuracy and to eliminate errors.• Assess client’s briefs and advise the firm on the best course of action to achieve desired results.• Negotiate with clients on behalf of the firm, and with persons and organizations on behalf of clients.• Responsible for interviewing and hiring staff for the firm.• Train and mentor younger employees and colleagues• Ensure compliance with statutory obligations• Receive, review, and respond to claims and demand letters• Organize and coordinate staff and board meetings, trainings, and other capacity building workshops and colloquiums, etc• Handle all pre-employment, employment, and post-employment relations.General Legal Advisory Services:• Drafting and reviewing various legal documents such as simple contracts, conveyances, deeds, and lease agreements for clients.• Conducted research and wrote opinions/articles on various aspects of law and business for the firm and clients.Litigation Experience:• Represented clients at the various courts including Magistrate Courts, States High Court, Federal High Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Nigeria.• Prepare pleadings, motions, briefs of argument, case management reports for cases in courts to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a case before and during trial.

Responsibilities/Experiences:• Oversaw the organization and coordination of over a thousand LLM students throughout the period of the program.• Acted as liaison between the students and the university administration and was responsible for the efficient and timely exchange of information between the students and the university administration.• Oversaw and spearheaded the planning and execution of projects donated to the university by the students and was personally responsible for the collation and transparent use of funds donated by the students for the projects. • Rendered accounts of all funds of the Association on a daily basis.• Held meetings with the school’s management as a representative of the Association.• Created and administered a WhatsApp group for the Association to enable timely communication.

Experiences & Achievement:• Ensured the efficient implementation of the national campaign strategy in all States of Nigeria.• Coordinated the setting up and running of campaign offices in all states of Nigeria.• Coordinated and organized campaign rallies, meetings, luncheons, and travels throughout the campaign.• Responsible for keeping, managing, disbursing, and accounting for the campaign funds.• Worked directly with the NBA Presidential Aspirant to select campaign coordinators for each state of Nigeria.• Acted as personal assistant to the Presidential Aspirant throughout the campaign.• Set up and coordinated an IT Campaign Team to ensure the campaign ran online and on all social media platforms.• Represented the NBA Presidential Aspirant at rallies, meetings, and events in more than fifteen (15) States of Nigeria at times when his absence was unavoidable.• Set up and coordinated the Central Campaign Office and call centre at Abuja for the campaign.• Led the campaign team members on one-on-one physical and telephone campaigns throughout the campaign.• Briefed and reported timeously to the candidate on actions taken and happenings relating to the campaign.• Received instructions from the candidate and gave instructions to campaign team members to achieve the common goal of the campaign.

• Tutored groups of Nigerian Law School Students of the Abuja Law School Campus on Property Law Practice, Corporate Law, Criminal Litigation, and Civil Litigation in preparation for the Final Bar Examinations of year 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively.• Conducted and graded tests and mock examinations for the students under my tutelage.• Developed learning materials, prepared schemes of work and treated past questions to aid better learning of the Nigerian Law School syllabus. • Utilized excellent communication and interpersonal skills while interacting with students.• Encouraged students to capitalise on their strengths while maintaining academic excellence.

• Ensured the smooth running of the Association.• Developed rules and policies to guide students of the Faculty of Law, Imo State University, Owerri.• Organized extra-curricular activities such as interclass/interschool moot competitions; prison visits, law dinners, matriculation ceremonies among others.• Managed the Association’s funds and accounts judiciously.• Initiated and executed a water project to provide pipe borne water to the students block as well as administrative blocks.

• Oversaw, managed and coordinated the operation of all shuttle buses provided by the school to aid transportation of students within Imo State.• Received and kept account of all monies remitted by bus drivers on behalf of the university.• Represented the university in negotiations and dispute resolutions with communities that had disagreements with the university’s transport operation.• Set up meetings and conferences for office staff; coordinated with appropriate office staff to set up audio- visual equipment for presentations where necessary.

Responsibilities/Experience:• Represented students of the faculty of law in the legislative arm of the Students’ Union Government• Attended meetings between the Students’ Union Government and the University Management to discuss issues relating to students’ welfare• Participated in reviewing and debating proposed regulations of the University as well as those of the executive arm of the Students’ Union Government.• Participated in the vetting of appointees for the judicial arm of the Students’ Union Government.