Lawyers’ Compendium to be Launched at NBA-AGC

For the first time a compendium of Nigerian lawyers will be published and its public presentation will be held in Abuja at the forthcoming Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference.

According to Mr. Emeka Nwadioke, Editor of the compendium titled Nigeria’s Top 100 Lawyers, “All is set for the unveiling of the compendium. This is very heartening for all of us, more so as tremendous work has gone into the listing.

‘The research has been painstaking in our efforts to ensure that the work is as up-to-date as possible. I dare say, it is a collector’s item.”

The list of the 100 top lawyers features leading litigators, transactional lawyers and lawyers in the academia who have shaped the legal industry over the years.

In a Foreword written by highly respected jurist and Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Hon. Justice George Oguntade Emeritus (CON), he stated that the compendium is “Rigorously researched, dispassionate and factually presented, it is written with lucid simplicity and a fine turn of prose, devoid of ostentatious and patronising language.

‘The authors have also maintained professional detachment by adopting global best practices and by conducting the peer review survey in a most professional manner.

‘I find it particularly refreshing that the authors are not taking payments of any kind for the listing. This will undoubtedly boost the integrity and standing of the listing. I am not unmindful that lists of this nature invariably engender debate.

‘I am however comforted by the fact that such debate will positively impact future editions of the work.

“The compendium is unique in several respects, not least the fact that it comprises 100 'mini-biographies' of Nigeria's preeminent lawyers.

“It highlights the honorees’ career paths and landmark professional accomplishments including precedents where apposite, thus providing a beacon especially for law students, young and mid-level lawyers vis-à-vis the success factors in the legal profession.”

Nwadioke, a lawyer has extensive experience in the media, including being a reporter at THISDAY Newspapers before his call to the Bar.