Profile of Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) His tertiary education was at the University of Lagos and the London School of Economics and Political Science obtaining the LLB and LLM degrees respectively.Prof Yemi Osinbajo is an erudite scholar, reformer and motivational speaker who has held key leadership position.Yemi Osinbajo is a Professor of law and was the head of department of Public Law at the University of Lagos (1997-1999).He previously served as the Special Adviser to the Attorney General of Nigeria (1988-1992). He later became the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State in 1999, reappointed for a second term in 2003. During the period of his public service, he commenced the Lagos State justice reform project. A prominent feature of that project was the establishment of the Directorate for Citizens’ Rights (DCR) which provides free legal services and legal representation to indigent citizens of the state. This initiative gave a voice to many who would otherwise not have a way to access their rights.He has thirty one years of litigation experience including significant trial and appellate work. Prof Osinbajo supervises the commercial litigation group at SimmonsCooper Partners (SCP), a leading commercial litigation and corporate commercial firm in Nigeria with a multi - jurisdictional competence spanning Nigeria, the United States and the United Kingdom.He has conducted very important constitutional and precedential cases before the Nigerian Supreme Court. Some of these includes fiscal disputes between the federating units and the federal government; disputes regarding the ownership and control of oil and gas resources; town and physical planning disputes between the federating units and the federal government; an international territorial jurisdictional dispute in the West African sub-regional court; shareholder disputes involving a multinational, private investors and state-owned investment corporations and energy dispute
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