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    The document provides details about the externship placement of Fasuyi Olayiwola Gamaliel at Olalekan Yusuf (SAN) & Co. law firm in Lagos, Nigeria. The law firm specializes in litigation and has branches in Abuja and the UK. It is owned and managed by Olalekan Yusuf, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The well-equipped office has several lawyers, support staff, and state-of-the-art facilities including a library, conference room, and security cameras. While the principal makes major decisions, day-to-day management is led by the Head of Chambers, who oversees lawyers and assigns them cases to research and report

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    The document provides details about the externship placement of Fasuyi Olayiwola Gamaliel at Olalekan Yusuf (SAN) & Co. law firm in Lagos, Nigeria. The law firm specializes in litigation and has branches in Abuja and the UK. It is owned and managed by Olalekan Yusuf, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The well-equipped office has several lawyers, support staff, and state-of-the-art facilities including a library, conference room, and security cameras. While the principal makes major decisions, day-to-day management is led by the Head of Chambers, who oversees lawyers and assigns them cases to research and report

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    The document provides details about the externship placement of Fasuyi Olayiwola Gamaliel at Olalekan Yusuf (SAN) & Co. law firm in Lagos, Nigeria. The law firm specializes in litigation and has branches in Abuja and the UK. It is owned and managed by Olalekan Yusuf, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The well-equipped office has several lawyers, support staff, and state-of-the-art facilities including a library, conference room, and security cameras. While the principal makes major decisions, day-to-day management is led by the Head of Chambers, who oversees lawyers and assigns them cases to research and report

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    NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL EXTERNSHIP PROGRAMME

    FASUYI OLAYIWOLA GAMALIEL

    REG. NO.: 1012

    ABUJA CAMPUS, BWARI ABUJA.

    LAW OFFICE: OLALEKAN YUSUF (SAN) & CO.

    THE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATION OF THE LAW FIRM WHERE I WAS


    PLACED.

    I was placed at Olalekan Yusuf (SAN) & co situate at no. 89 Allen Avenue, Ikeja Lagos. It is
    a core litigation firm; its major practice areas include conveyancing, secured credit
    Transactions, property law, commercial matters, company law, intellectual property, oil and
    gas, information and communication law amongst others. It has branches in Abuja and an
    office in Essex, United Kingdom. It is a sole proprietorship owned and managed by the
    principal, a Senior advocate of Nigeria and Notary public. The principal has eight lawyers in
    his employment including a youth corper. The office has other support staffs which include
    the office secretary, receptionist, an office assistant, a cleaner and driver.

    The Law office is quite spacious and conducive for the practice of law. It is well equipped
    and furnished with state of the art facilities. It has a waiting room and a well-furnished
    reception; Clients and visitors are made to wait at the waiting room until their appointment is
    confirmed at which point they are welcomed at the reception.

    The office space is compartmentalised into several cubicles which serve as the personal
    working space of each of the legal practitioners. Some compartments are large enough to take
    about three lawyers. The principal has a separate office space to himself. There is a restroom,
    one for females and another for males. It has a kitchenette equipped with a microwave, a
    mini-refrigerator and cupboards for storage of utensils. The Law office is temperately air-
    conditioned and has a water dispenser at the reception.

    The law office has a well-equipped and furnished library for legal research. It contains
    textbooks, updated law reports, law report indexes, journals, and biographies etc. The
    materials are well arranged in several sections for ease of access. The library has a standby
    photocopying machine, a scanner and a Dell computer. Furthermore, the law office has a
    medium-sized conference room for meetings and conferences. One of the compartments
    contains shelves where the case files are neatly arranged and classified. Their filling system is
    structured according to the respective courts and jurisdiction. For the purpose of online
    research, internet facility is made available to the lawyers to enable them catch up with the
    current legal trend. The office has close circuit television system installed and its cameras
    positioned at vantage positions for security reasons.

    Whilst the principal makes the most vital decisions, the day to day management of the firm is
    the responsibility of the Head of chambers who ensures proper administration of things. He
    oversees the work of the other lawyers in the chamber. Each lawyer is assigned matter(s) per
    week to which they report back to the Head of chambers. The learned silk handles some
    matters of interest personally with other junior lawyers doing the bulk of the research work.

    In conclusion, Olalekan Yusuf SAN & co is at the cutting edge of the legal profession in
    Nigeria and my placement was most beneficial.

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