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Paul Usoro SAN

Nelson Uzuegbu: Paul Usoro SAN, Reflections on a team player

A lot has been said and written recently about Paul Usoro as The Man, The Lawyer, The Candidate. Some have however called for reflections from a time more distant into the past. I am in a position to offer this; so I will start with a glimpse of Paul from earlier days and from my […]

The UK & South Africa can teach us a few things about mentoring young lawyers – Paul Usoro

Paul Usoro is one of Nigeria’s leading lawyers, with industry-leading expertise in commercial and telecommunications law. The following is an excerpt from a speech in Markudi, Benue to commemorate the NBA Markudi Branch 2018 Law Week. Pupillage generally connotes the concept of understudying or working under another with a view to better one’s knowledge, understanding […]

#PaulUsoroChallenge is helping to advance Nigeria’s pro bono culture

Though life was not perfect for 24-year old Jimi Oladapo, at least he managed to get by. A graduate of Accounting from the University of Benin, Oladapo eked out a living working as a machine operator in a plastic production factory. After three fruitless years of job hunting, he was forced to swallow his pride, […]

This is the one thing Paul Usoro does that the legal profession needs to do more

In Africa, where the intellectual prowess of women is yet to be fully acknowledged and accepted as a tool for societal development, only a few members of the male gender openly encourage and support females in the face of hostilities associated with society’s gender imbalance. Paul Usoro, SAN, a distinguished gentleman and one of Nigeria’s […]

Paul Usoro SAN urges NBA to remain a ‘progressive force’ in Nigeria

Paul Usoro, SAN has urged the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association to put the interest of the country’s lawyers and the national interest as the umbrella body of lawyers begin its first quarterly meeting in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital for the year. In a statement, he said the “importance and centrality […]

Kindness to one is kindness to all: Paul Usoro SAN calls for more IDP support in NE Nigeria

Paul Usoro, SAN has called for more to be done to improve the plight of persons displaced by the ongoing insurgency in the North-East of the country. Speaking in Maiduguri recently, he charged lawyers, stakeholders and the general public to show their support for Internally Displaced Persons. In a statement posted on his social media […]

‘A law firm is a business concern,’ Usoro SAN tasks lawyers on leadership, finance management

Prominent lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Paul Usoro, has enjoined lawyers across the country to build competencies in financial management in order to aid their professional performance. Usoro said this in a meeting with a group of lawyers recently who attended an interactive session with him recently at The Colonnades Hotel, Ikoyi. According to […]

Chidi Odinkalu’s tirade on Paul Usoro: What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Professor Chidi Anselm Odinkalu rudely woke the legal community Thursday morning, with a vitriol diatribe against Mr Paul Usoro, SAN in what has to be considered as an unfair and unwarranted onslaught against his person. READ: NBA election passions heat up as Odinkalu revives debunked Usoro allegations While Odinkalu is within his right as a concerned […]