by manager6345 | Apr 1, 2015 | March 2015 edition, Media, The Write Partner
Nigerian lawyers can keep up with ongoing legal developments in the world by exposing themselves to best practices. That is why lawyers need to keep improving their professional skills. Some lawyers took that step recently when they participated in a brief-writing...
by manager6345 | Apr 1, 2015 | The Write Partner
Chelsea Hotel Abuja, 24-25 June 2015 Brief Writing Masterclass is boldly interdisciplinary in its approach to persuasive writing. Communications theory, linguistics, logic, psychology, rhetoric, and semantics combine with law to make this course absolutely peerless....
by manager6345 | Mar 31, 2015 | March 2015 edition, The Write Partner
‘The Write Partner’ assesses, criticizes, or praises the language of selected passages from Nigeria’s leading law reports. Aikhadueki [2014] 15 NWLR (Part 1431) 530- Supreme Court of Nigeria Under Facts, the law reporter begins as follows: The appellant was arraigned...
by manager6345 | Mar 31, 2015 | March 2015 edition, The Write Partner
The undergraduate degree in law is Bachelor of Laws (LLB). In Nigeria and the US, you need a law degree (LLB in Nigeria; JD or LLB in the US) before you can become a lawyer. LLB is spelt LLB or LL.B., never L.L.B. But many lawyers do not understand how come or why...
by manager6345 | Mar 31, 2015 | March 2015 edition, The Write Partner
The following types of clause are typical in contracts: An assignment clause permits, prohibits, or restricts a complete transfer of contractual rights by one or more of the contracting parties to a non-party. A confidentiality clause prohibits or restricts disclosure...
by manager6345 | Mar 31, 2015 | March 2015 edition, The Write Partner
Kayode Sofola SAN reminds advocates to call a spade a spade, and not an agricultural implement. Sofola has a firm command of English and an ear for the apt expression. He is blessed with a literary turn of mind. He also points out that people would say methodology...
