More trouble may be brewing for Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, as the Supreme Court of Nigeria has revealed that there was no record of him as a lawyer in their registry. The apex court keeps records of all certified lawyers allowed to handle cases in any Nigerian court. Obasa's profile on Wikipedia and the Lagos Assembly’s website describes him as a lawyer and solicitor of the Federal Republic of Nigeria even though there is no mention of where he practiced or a case he handled. The Speaker, Lagos House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa TWITTER/LSHA He is also described on the Assembly's website as graduating from the Nigerian Law School in 2007, a year after he...
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Many viewers binge-watched (or cringe-watched) Netflix's Indian Matchmaking . On the show, seven singles look to get married in an arranged setting. One of those lucky singletons is lawyer Aparna Shewakramani, whose feisty personality can't be overlooked. That's why she has become the latest internet sensation! Let's dig a little deeper into her work life and see what kind of lawyer actually is. The internet is divided over whether to like or hate Aparna. Meme creators have produced a variety of entertaining content that revolves around her antics. Although we know a lot about her personal, family, and romantic life from the show, we want to know more about her work life. Aparna wanted to...
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The government's 'advisor' accompanying former Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi to Montenegro was none other than his personal lawyer, Aron Mifsud Bonnici. Two veteran lawyers have called out the Chamber of Advocates’ criticism of The Shift for revealing the trips to Montenegro made by Konrad Mizzi’s personal lawyer Aron Mifsud Bonnici, saying that his presence should be questioned and was potentially dangerous. Lawyers Franco Vassallo and Paul Pullicino pointed out that Mifsud Bonnici’s presence on a number of official trips made by Mizzi to Montenegro was incompatible and the Chamber’s recent criticism was uncalled for. “The Chamber seems to be forgetting that, in the real world, the...
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Earlier this year, the COVID-19 outbreak brought my life as a traveling civil law attorney to a screeching halt. But unlike many, just because I couldn’t leave my Beijing home didn’t mean I was out of work. Prospective clients often reached out to me on microblogging platform Weibo, and as the economic ramifications of the now-pandemic rippled outward, messages from employers and workers continued to pour in from across China. Their stories are a window into some of the ways the past few months have turned people’s lives upside down. Wang is the owner of a noodle restaurant I’ve visited in the central city of Wuhan, itself the center of the epidemic in China. One of his restaurant’s...
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Within and outside Nigeria, the name Wole Olanipekun is massive, especially when the issue at hand is law and constitutional development. Of course, it doesn’t take anybody who encounters this Senior Advocate of Nigeria a long time to know that law and his family are dear to his heart. But as Raheem Akingbolu found out in Ekiti recently, there is unbridled bond between this law icon and his Ikere community St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Ikere Ekiti, is an ancient place of worship but today it has suddenly become ‘the bride’ of the community, thanks to an illustrious son of the town, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), who recently built an ultramodern Church Auditorium, with world class facilities...
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▪ Elect officials who promise to establish civilian police review boards with subpoena power. These civilian review boards would include nonpolice members and have investigatory powers and the ability to fire officers who have been cited with multiple misconduct complaints, especially those related to use of excessive force. Someone needs to police the police. ▪ Eliminate police unions’ ability to reinstate officers accused of excessive force, abuse, or racial profiling, by requiring elected officials to negotiate contracts that allow for civilian police review boards to fire officers found guilty of those offenses. ▪ If you elect judges in your state, elect those who understand the...
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A lawyer is tweeting videos of police using force at protests. There are more than 350 On May 30, T. Greg Doucette, a criminal defense lawyer from Durham, N.C., tweeted out a compilation of 10 videos he’d seen of police using force against protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd. He had no idea the degree to which things would snowball from there. As Doucette’s Twitter thread went viral, a flood of videos began pouring in from cities and towns around the country showing police shoving, kicking, pepper-spraying and otherwise using force against peaceful protesters. (One video Doucette shared involved Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske being hit with rubber bullets while...
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Top 10 rules to be a successful lawyer Top 10 rules to be a successful lawyer A third-generation trial attorney, I have spent a majority of my life either working as a lawyer or hearing about it at the dinner table growing up. I was a trial attorney in North Carolina for nearly 27 years and retired in 2004 to go into consulting. I moved to Oregon in 2016 and decided to take the Oregon state bar exam because I had an in-house counsel job offer that required a law license. Once I passed the bar exam and got my law license, the job did not materialize. I decided to continue consulting with a focus on lawyers. After all, lawyers seem to have many unique skill sets and problems that only lawyers...
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- White House counsel Pat Cipollone will reportedly lead the team that represents President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial. Superficially, this may sound logical. The opposite is true. It’s highly problematic for Cipollone to represent Trump in the Senate. For starters, Cipollone is the author of the letter to executive branch employees directing them not to cooperate with the House’s impeachment inquiry. Cipollone’s Oct. 8 letter told the House of Representatives that its impeachment inquiry was illegitimate and that Trump and the executive branch wouldn’t participate in it. The letter was written “on behalf of” Trump. This letter was widely received as...
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