THE anticipated list of Nigeria’s top 100 lawyers will be released on December 1, 2014, the publishers have said.
Giving an insight into the legal practitioners who made the list, Emeka Nwadioke, lawyer and editor of the listing, said “our goal is to find and recognise lawyers who have demonstrated a truly exceptional level of professional competence.”
He added that the exclusive list included preeminent litigators, transactional lawyers and leading lawyers in diverse practice areas “who have shaped Nigeria’s legal industry in the current year.”
According to Nwadioke, who is also the Editor of City Lawyer Magazine, “the survey is, indeed, an eye-opener, not least because it confirms the point that peer-rating remains perhaps the most authentic and reliable method for validating excellence among peers.”
While many well-known practitioners expectedly made the list, there were quite a few surprises, with the displacement of “more popular” practitioners by their relatively obscure peers.
The compendium, according to the editor, was designed to provide the most transparent, respected, useful and definitive referral guide on legal excellence in Nigeria.
The publishers said it also did not accept payments of any kind from lawyers, law firms or third parties for listing.
Nwadioke said the all-gloss compendium highlighting the career paths and accomplishments of the honorees would also be released next month, adding that a foreword to the over 100-page compendium was written by the Justice George A. Oguntade, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court.
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