Udo Udoma & Bello Osagie Charmbers

This our profession sha! Imagine person with 5-10 years post call experience as junior lawyer? That means person fit die e never still be senior lawyer talk less of associate. Anyway fellow wigs, for those of you with the requisite years and "experience" please make hay while the sun shines.

@Geezle
1-2 years, you dey jones.  Dont you know that even if you spent 1-2 solid years in a good law firm and I stay at home and live off my father for 5 years I have more experience than you? Even if the only case I handled was a quarrel between my neighbours and my additional accolades are from my uncle's mechanic shouting" d law" I still have more experience than you, I can still apply for this ad and I'll be more qualified

@iyk2
Preach the word Preacher! Well spoken, just don't know if people can see what we see. I'm proposing a platform where you can be your own Principal even if you're an employee somewhere else, gather as much as you can and be able to price yourself by your perception of your true-worth and not what the "dusty wigs" drop of their lofty tables. We must pay our dues but nobody said payment was slavery.

hi everyone.really iv been doin alot of thinking lately. we do have alot of us wigs out here who arent satistfied with the peanuts we are being paid and also on top of it the insults we receive from the seniors. generally being dissatisfied means we want something better. but we really need to come to that point where we decide what we really want. il tell my stry, i nyscd at min of jst uyo,and friends, i  was into real litigation.i honestly didnt want to leave after service(because of the litigatn i enjoyed and notin else ) i got back to abuja and was tossed around til i got a job as a coy sec.i got this job because i wanted to make some cash,three months into the job,i felt my lawyer cells dying.i left the job. though part of the reasons i left was that the company just didnt knw what the job of a coy sec was,i was literaly turned uinto an admin staff,so u can undastand my frustration. after i left,all i wanted to do was get back into the the battle field(litigation), i worked with a lawyer 14 years my senior in the bar. 4months into working for him he gave the real taste of what (most)seniors do to juniors, the insults began,so did the non payment of salaries,iv stayed 3mnths witout being payed(iv seen others who'v stayed longer).

why am i sayin all these,if you really need to work in a law firm you'l just have to take the plunge. it depends in which of the law firms u fall, if u fall in my type,u knw what to expect. but then as we all knw there are rea law cool law firms,but how do u get into em?

anyway, i woke one day and walked to CAC an got my very own law fir registered. it took alot of courage for me to the firm i was with and i didi. now i wouldnt say being on my own has been rossy rosy. but then i honestly think its the best.

if u want the money,law firms are not for u,really thats my take. but then just like me i intend to still get a regular (legal)job and keep running my firm by the side.

i think it'l be better to really knw what you are cut out for; the money or the practice? or for how long u can stay with the money witout the practice? u'knw those sorta questions.

@kamikaze. im really down with your revolution idea,what do u have in mind? my email is connectjd@yahoo.com.
@legs. where u dey? havnt seen your post in a while.

Still here …

I guess the problem is that sometimes we go into the profession just hoping to come out as lawyers without any idea of what area we intend to specialize in. And for those of us that schooled in Nigeria, we all know that six years of study (excluding ‘strike’ periods) is no joke. Let’s not even talk about the conditions of study or the crap you have to put up with from your lecturers (who may not necessarily be evil but may just be frustrated with the system themselves). Possibly some of us shouldn’t even have studied law. The common perception was that once you were not an ‘arts student’ in secondary school, you just had to study law. I for one would have studied accounting or something similar and been out of school ages ago if I had not been misled to think that arts/future law students weren’t good at mathematics which I discovered is utter bollocks ‘because I’m pretty good with figures.

Bottom line is, before even entering university to study law you need to decide which path you are going to follow. Are you interested in litigation in which case your apex could either be as a JSC or an SAN? Another option could be Corporate/Commercial law and forgetting about any major litigation practice (which I think is overrated, but that’s a story for another day). Then there’s the decision about what corporate sector you’re going to be in, aviation, Energy, Tax, IP blah blah blah. Even then you would then need to decide whether you would be a practicing corporate lawyer, or legal adviser in a company. Obviously, by this time you would have realized that if you would rather be a company secretary, your role would be slightly diminished to something somewhat more administrative than legal (ganza why were you surprised, forgotten that CAMA indicates that even an Accountant or qualified Administrator could be company secretary? )

Once you decide what you want to do be prepared to stick with and put up with the crap that comes your way, keep your eyes open and for goodness’ sake network! (even if you are naturally anti-social) I’ve read all the comments about stingy principles, but those guys are only looking out for number one, and like it or not they have the one thing that places them above juniors… experience. And we all know that degrees and grades don’t mean a damn thing to clients. A client with real cheddar would rather settle for an old experienced lawyer than a fresher with three LLMs and a PhD. After all shey they said Gani came out with a third class. If after all the planning, it still doesn’t pay, abeg look for something else to do. As I tell my friends - don’t seek for emotional satisfaction from your job, seek for money and get the emotional satisfaction from your folks at home.

I don’t expect absolute alignment with my comments from most people, but I believe that’s the way the cookie crumbles. In addition, when we get to the top (by His grace) let’s remember to pay our juniors reasonable wages and forget the ‘injustice’ we suffered at the hands of senior lawyers, after today’s seniors were yesterday’s juniors, abi?

the way I see it dear, it depends on your boss if he's going to be petty about it then there's really nothing you can do in which case you would definitely be right to leave his establishment. Notwithstanding if you have a career plan I think you should stick to it, you are only responsible for number one.

So sorry my love, was supposed to have said something but work came calling and I had to go out,just came in few minutes ago. Talk to you later my dear.

@legs
Thanks girl for your response to my post.I appreciate it. For all I care, my boss can go take a hike. You know I just realised that if for any reason his Firm doesn't need my services, he would not give it a half a sec thought before he fires me so why should I be so bothered about how he feels about my leaving.

@everybody
Kilonsele? i see we have only few regulars, others come, see that we're not hiring, post one and bounce? Come on, lets tell everyone bout us and lets grow into a force to be reckoned with. Imagine living in Abuja and you get a call that some client who lives in Abuja is being referred to you courtesy of the network? We can touch each other beyond our imaginations if we are diligent in  this. Remember, some of us are comfortable as it is so its not about making a few bucks but touching as many lives, therein lies my gain.
Cheers

Did u say u were hiring in the first place, ?


Y'all have good jobs and are changing, @soap, ish, recommend someone to take your place and see what comes out, I got the right candidate

Kami, should I send you cvs?

@soapdish
thanks alot for even tryin.hp your wikend was aight.cheers
@kamikaze
just sent my info to your mail,thanks men

Huuh no, my candidate is male, he might just fit into your position very easily, want to call him? 08060067857-Leke

You are welcome  but they want a female

@nonysmith your mail is not among those received, you sure you got the address right? its kamikazenland@gmail.com