Built on thirteen years of contested criminal work.
A state ministry of justice is a slower and less comfortable education than most commercial practices are built on. It is also where you learn what a file looks like before anyone outside the room has seen it.
Why the firm exists
Nigerian commercial law is not short of capable firms. It is short of firms that will tell a client which parts of a matter are actually contestable, and which parts are a regulator doing what regulators do.
That distinction is learned on the other side of the file. Our founder spent his career to 2021 building cases for the state, and the firm was set up around what that taught him: that most outcomes are decided in how a matter is prepared, and that the expensive errors happen in the first fortnight.
We now practise across fifteen areas from one office in Garki. The contentious work remains the centre of it.
Four things we commit to in writing.
A named lawyer, start to finish
The counsel who takes the instruction keeps the file. Where a matter crosses into another practice area, that lawyer brings the second team in rather than handing the client over.
The bad answer, early
If a claim is weak, a defence is hopeless, or a filing is out of time, we say so in the first written advice rather than in the fourth invoice. Clients who want a different answer are free to seek one.
Fees agreed in writing before work starts
Every engagement opens with a scope and a basis of charge. Where a matter is likely to exceed its estimate, the client hears that before the work is done, not after.
A standing pro bono docket
The firm carries fundamental rights work for detainees held beyond constitutional limits in the Federal Capital Territory. It is not a marketing programme and it is not paused when the firm is busy.
Where we sit
Garki, because the regulators and the appellate courts are here. One office is a deliberate choice: a branch network would mean the counsel who took your instruction is not the one who argues it.
Tell us what happened, and when it has to be resolved.
A first conversation costs nothing and usually takes twenty minutes. If the matter is not ours we will say so and point you to someone whose it is.
- Chambers
- No 10. Gimbiya Street
Area 11, Garki
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory
Nigeria - Hours
- Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 6.00pm WAT
- ishaq@magajisan.info