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1. Allow me say about in relation to the NBA elections -- many of these litigation-based SANs and senior litigators (who insist that NBA presidency is their birthright) are a huge part of the problem the NBA has. They pay the poorest salaries and treat their staff terribly.
I know this because I have been a lawyer for well over a decade and I have seen the wickedness of senior litigators and litigation-based SANs. I will not mention names but be assured that with respect to this very election, if you have SAN behind your name, I wont vote you.
If one wonders what triggered the foregoing tweets, please see this letter below:
https://twitter.com/ChidiOdinkalu/status/1276790365547384832?s=19
https://twitter.com/ChidiOdinkalu/status/1276790365547384832?s=19
These litigation-based SANs have taken far more from the NBA than they have ever given. What value do they add other sit in the inner bar (that is if that is a value). Pay shitty salaries and fail to create a structure that empowers even the most loyal & long standing colleagues.
These guys have continuously taken exorbitant dues from young lawyers who they pay poor salaries (yes,a senior litigation & SAN paid me 18k in 2009),yet they want to remain leaders of same lawyers.
Dear litigation-based SANs, take your knees off the neck of NBA. Let it breathe!
Dear litigation-based SANs, take your knees off the neck of NBA. Let it breathe!
To be clear, I continuously use the word "litigation-based" SANs to distinguish between these characters and great SANs who have trained and empowered younger lawyers in more ways than can be said in a tweet such as my mentor and former boss, Prof. @GbolahanElias, SAN.
I have been very quiet about this election and was going to quietly cast my vote in the comfort of my house in July but you know what, because of that rather sad letter from Awomolo, SAN, I will not only vote for Olumide Akpata, I will campaign for him going forward.
If these litigation-based SANs think that young lawyers are a joke and want them to remain so in their minds, I will remind them that there are around 120k lawyers on the roll of lawyers. Of this number around 65% of them were called to bar in the last 15 years.
Make of that statistic whatever you will. We will now move with Olu Akpata.
