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Associate – Insolvency

AELEX

Job DescriptionsAdvise clients on insolvency, restructuring, debt recovery, and business rescue matters.Assist with corporate restructurings, workouts, schemes of arrangement, and other restructuring transactions.Draft and review insolvency-related documentation, including restructuring agreements, security enforcement documents, demand notices, and court processes.Support insolvency practitioners in receivership, administration, liquidation, and business rescue proceedings.Conduct legal research and provide opinions on insolvency, creditor rights, secured transactions, and related regulatory issues.Represent clients in insolvency-related negotiations, mediations, and court proceedings where required.Review and analyse financial and corporate records to identify legal and commercial risks.Advise lenders, creditors, and investors on enforcement and recovery strategies.Monitor developments in insolvency, restructuring, and corporate recovery laws and regulations.Prepare client updates, legal memoranda, and thought leadership materials on emerging insolvency and restructuring issues

Lagos
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AELEX

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Lagos
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Labour Head

Ascentech Services Limited

Job DescriptionsPlan and coordinate daily, weekly, and seasonal labour requirements.Supervise labour teams and monitor attendance, productivity, and discipline.Ensure assigned farm operations are completed efficiently and on schedule.Maintain labour attendance, deployment, and productivity records.Enforce safety procedures and compliance with farm policies.Provide regular updates on labour availability and work progress.

Oyo
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Manager, ITTS-Advisory

Ernst & Young

Job DescriptionsCoordinate teams of professional staff on various international tax projects.Managing operations relating to projects, ensuring assignments are completed in line with the Firm’s criteria around quality & risk management, engagement economics and cash collection.Lead teams to provide various international tax services ranging from cross cross-border tax advisory, tax restructuring services, tax due diligence services and regulatory services such as, processing of National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) and Pioneer Status Incentive approvals.Apply sound knowledge and understanding of the local tax laws, double tax treaties and international tax laws in projects.Manage relationships with clients, regulators, and other external parties.Adopt quality project management strategies to optimize efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery.Monitor project progress, manage resources, and escalate any challenges that arise to ensure successful project outcomes to leadership.Stay updated on changes in local and international tax laws and regulations and communicate the implications to clients.Supervise, coach and invest in training and development of younger team members.

Lagos
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Legal Officer

Bolton White Group

Job DescriptionsLegal Compliance & AdvisoryContract ManagementCorporate governance & Regulatory AffairsLitigation & Dispute ResolutionRisk ManagementIntellectual Property & Data ProtectionEmployment & Labor Law Compliance.

Abuja
Full Time
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Dispute Resolution Litigation

AELEX

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Lagos
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Legal Advisor

Marconi.NG EPC Limited

Job DescriptionsDraft, review, and negotiate EPC contracts and commercial agreements.Advise Management on legal, contractual, and regulatory matters.Support procurement, commercial, and project teams.Manage legal risks and compliance obligations.Liaise with regulatory authorities and external counsel.Support dispute resolution and corporate governance activities.

Rivers
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Regulatory Officer

BTEL (Briclinks Africa Plc)

Job DescriptionsMonitor and interpret regulatory requirements relevant to the company’s operations.Ensure the organization complies with all statutory and regulatory obligations.Liaise with regulatory authorities and ensure timely submission of required reports and documentation.Prepare and maintain regulatory compliance reports and records.Conduct internal compliance checks and audits where necessary.Advise management on regulatory updates and potential compliance risks.Assist in developing and implementing compliance policies and procedures.Support regulatory inspections and investigations when required.

Abuja
Full Time
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Legal Officer

New Dawn Microfinance Bank Limited

Job DescriptionsReviewing, vetting, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of legal agreements for the Bank, including but not limited to loan agreements, finance documents, vendor contracts, service level agreements, NDAs and MOUs.Representing the Bank in contract negotiation meetings.Reviewing and approving legal documentation to ensure consistency with internal policies, applicable laws, and regulatory requirements.Collaborating with business units to provide legal support on contractual matters, offering practical and risk-aware legal advice.Ensuring timely turnaround on all agreement review requests and managing service level expectations with internal stakeholders.Providing guidance on standard contractual clauses and supporting the automation of agreement templates where appropriate.Developing, maintaining, and regularly updating a legal clause library and repository of standard contract templates.Supporting audits, regulatory inspections, and internal risk reviews concerning legal documentation.Draft and review complex loan agreements, facility letters, and guarantees as well as conduct legal searches and perfection of securities.Monitoring changes in applicable laws and regulations that may impact the bank’s contractual obligations.Provide legal support in delinquency management and debt recovery

Akwa Ibom
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The Silence That Kills: Why Lawyers Don't Talk About Mental Health (And What To Do About It)
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The Silence That Kills: Why Lawyers Don't Talk About Mental Health (And What To Do About It)

There is a particular feeling that Nigerian lawyers know well, even if they have never put a name to it. It arrives on Sunday evening, somewhere between the last hour of rest and the moment the week begins again. You are not at the office but your mind already is, running through the briefs you did not finish, the client who called three times on Friday, the matter that is set for Monday and has more holes in it than you would like to admit. You are not resting. You stopped being able to rest a while ago, and somewhere along the way, you accepted that as normal.This article is about that acceptance, and why it is costing lawyers in Nigeria more than most of them realise.The legal profession in Nigeria has a serious and largely unspoken mental health problem. This is not a secret to anyone inside the profession, which is precisely what makes the silence so striking. Lawyers are aware that the work is grinding, that the culture is brutal in places, that something is often not right. They know it and they stay quiet, and the staying quiet is not an accident. It is a professional calculation, one that makes complete sense in the short term and causes serious harm over time.The logic runs like this: your reputation for composure and competence is, in many ways, your most valuable professional asset. A litigator who cannot hold themselves together in court loses credibility. A corporate associate who admits to struggling gets quietly moved off the important matters. An in-house counsel who tells the CEO they are overwhelmed stops being the person the CEO calls first. The professional cost of appearing vulnerable is concrete and arrives quickly. The cost of staying silent feels abstract and distant. So lawyers choose the silence, and the debt accumulates.What makes this conversation particularly difficult in Nigeria is that the silence has additional reinforcement on every side.Nigerian legal culture is built on hierarchy and the expectation of endurance. Whether you are a junior associate at a commercial firm in Victoria Island, a lawyer in a federal ministry drafting regulations that may or may not be read, or in-house counsel at a bank fielding calls from the trading desk at all hours, the unspoken expectation is the same: absorb it, deliver, and do not make your difficulties someone else's problem. Telling a principal or a head of department that you are struggling is not a neutral disclosure in that environment. It is a risk, and most lawyers have already done the cost-benefit analysis and decided against it.The problem is also invisible to many of the people it affects, because the image of the struggling lawyer is almost always the litigator, the barrister in court with a troubled case and a difficult client. This leaves out an enormous part of the profession. The corporate lawyer billing eighteen-hour days on a transaction that keeps restructuring does not see himself in that image. The bank's head of legal who has not taken an uninterrupted holiday in four years does not see herself. The government lawyer who is technically protected by civil service rules and practically ignored by everyone above her does not feel entitled to the language of professional suffering because, from the outside, her job looks stable. These lawyers are not exempt from the problem. They are simply not in the conversation, and so they conclude, wrongly, that the problem is not theirs.The numbers tell a different story. A 2016 study involving nearly 13,000 lawyers found that 28 percent met criteria for depression and 19 percent for anxiety. The International Bar Association, following a global survey of legal professionals, found that one in ten young lawyers had experienced suicidal thoughts, not burnout, not job dissatisfaction, suicidal thoughts. No equivalent Nigerian study exists, which is itself significant. It is not that the problem is absent here. It is that it has not been made visible enough for anyone to study.There is also something particular about how lawyers process their own distress that makes it harder to catch. Lawyers are trained to argue, to build the strongest possible case for a position and dismantle challenges to it. When confronted with the possibility that they are not well, most lawyers will immediately begin making the counter-argument. They will point to their output as evidence of their stability. They will note, accurately, that others in the profession have it harder. They will reframe chronic anxiety as professionalism, insomnia as dedication, emotional flatness as maturity. They will build a persuasive case for their own wellness and, because they are skilled at what they do, they will find it convincing. This is not ordinary self-deception. It is a professional ability deployed in exactly the wrong direction.Knowing this, what do you actually do?The first and least comfortable step is being precise about what you are experiencing. Saying "I am tired" when what you mean is "I have not felt like myself in six months and I am drinking more than I should to take the edge off professional anxiety" is a failure of the precision that lawyers apply to everything else in their work. Name what is actually happening, because until you do, you cannot address it.It also helps to be clear about the difference between occupational pressure and genuine psychological crisis. Pressure is a feature of legal work and it is not going away. Crisis looks different: a persistent low mood that does not lift with rest or time away, meaningful changes in how you sleep or eat, withdrawing from people who matter to you, thoughts of harming yourself. Those things are not a harder version of stress. They require professional attention, and they require it now rather than after the next deal or the end of the court term.Accessing that professional attention is more realistic than many lawyers assume. Organisations like Mentally Aware Nigeria Initiative connects people to mental health professionals across the country. Private therapists with experience in high-pressure professional environments are accessible in Lagos and Abuja, and telehealth has made geography considerably less of a barrier than it used to be. Many practitioners offer sliding-scale fees for people where cost is a genuine constraint. The barrier is rarely practical. It is almost always psychological, the same professional logic that said staying silent was the safer choice.For senior lawyers, this section is not only about the people who report to you.Seniority changes the shape of pressure, it does not remove it. Partners worry about business development, client retention, and whether the firm they built can survive a difficult year. Principals in chambers carry their own caseload on top of managing the work of others. Senior in-house counsel navigate legal risk and executive politics simultaneously with nobody above them in the legal function to offload to. And unlike junior lawyers, who at least have peers to suffer alongside, senior lawyers often struggle in genuine isolation. Admitting difficulty to a peer can feel like handing them a competitive advantage. Raising it with a junior is unthinkable. So it simply stays inside, and the years pass.If you reached seniority by enduring things you should not have had to endure, that history deserves honest reflection rather than quiet pride. Surviving a harmful environment and being strengthened by it are not the same thing, and treating them as equivalent is one of the ways that the profession reproduces its own damage across generations. Many senior lawyers are carrying weight from years of practice that they have simply become skilled at not noticing. All the practical steps in this article apply to you as much as to the junior associate you are worried about. The person who bills the most and says the least about how they are doing is not your most reliable colleague. They are your highest risk. And if that description fits you as well, it is worth sitting with that honestly.The NBA has an opportunity here that it has not yet taken seriously. Confidential, properly resourced mental health support specifically for legal professionals is not an unusual ask. Bar associations in other jurisdictions have built this infrastructure. There is no credible argument for why Nigerian lawyers should have less access to it than their counterparts elsewhere, and professional bodies that claim to represent the interests of members cannot indefinitely exclude this one.The law exists to protect people. The lawyers who practise it are not an exception to that. The ones who are most at risk right now are, in many cases, the ones who are most certain that they are doing fine. So, let's end this article by advising all lawyers: 'MAKE SURE TO PROTECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH AT ALL COST.'

How to Position Yourself for Global Legal Opportunities from Nigeria
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How to Position Yourself for Global Legal Opportunities from Nigeria

The narrative that you have to "Japa" to succeed is outdated. Globalisation is changing legal practice and what’s expected of lawyers today. Nigerian businesses are increasingly involved in international deals, foreign investors are entering key sectors, and cross-border disputes and compliance issues are on the rise. With the explosion of fintech, renewable energy, and cross-border infrastructure projects, the world isn't just coming to Nigeria—Nigerian lawyers are going to the world.Here’s how you can prepare yourself to compete globally.1. Build a Strong Academic and Professional Foundation: Start with a solid academic base: earn an LL.B from a recognised Nigerian university and complete the Nigerian Law School to be called to the Bar (with the best grades you can). From there, position yourself for global opportunities by pursuing an LL.M at a reputable international institution or through a well-accredited online programme.But don’t stop at formal degrees—go beyond the Bar. Build commercially relevant expertise through reputable online programmes such as distance learning at top international schools, or on platforms like Coursera, Udemy and edX. Focus on areas you are passionate about while also exploring high-growth sectors such as fintech, AI, energy & climate change, human rights, international law & diplomacy, arbitration, commercial law, and dispute resolution.Continuous learning is also critical, and this is where the NBA’s Mandatory Continuing Professional Development (MCPD) framework becomes a strategic tool. Don’t treat it as a box-ticking exercise—use those required CPD hours intentionally. Dive into emerging and globally relevant areas to keep your knowledge current and your expertise competitive.2. Gain International Legal Exposure:Practical, hands-on experience in international work is crucial to help you to gain experience and start building your professional network. Get them!Virtual Internships: Many global firms offer online programs where you can work on commercial deals, compliance, disputes, or policy projects. Check out Platforms like Forage, which offer virtual experience programs with firms like White & Case, Clifford Chance, and Latham & Watkins. You can also leverage TR Thrive Opportunity Board, which aggregate and share verified internships, fellowships, events and training opportunities tailored specifically for Nigerian lawyers looking to gain global exposure.  These opportunities let you gain real-world experience and demonstrate global competence without relocating.International Programs: Apply for exchange programs, fellowships, and international training programs to help you understand how other legal systems work. These programs also let you network with peers and experts worldwide, building your global perspective.Cross-Border Collaborations: If your current firm handles transactions for foreign investors, volunteer to join the deal. Start in research, drafting, or support roles, and gradually take on more responsibility. Understanding how a Delaware Corp interacts with a Nigerian Ltd is a skill you can sell anywhere.These experiences create a portfolio of international exposure, showing you can handle complex cross-border matters and making you attractive to global employers.3. Develop Key Global Skills:To succeed internationally, you need skills that go beyond local law:Language skills: English is essential, and so is knowledge of other languages like French, Chinese or Spanish because they open doors in Francophone countries, Europe, Latin America, and organisations like the UN or ICC. Multilingualism also strengthens client trust and collaboration.Networking and cultural intelligence: Understand how business norms, communication styles, and legal traditions vary across regions. Build networks through associations, conferences, and online platforms. Strong interpersonal skills help you work effectively in diverse teams.The Tech Advantage: If you aren't comfortable with AI-driven legal research tools or contract management software, you're already behind. Efficiency is a global currency. Build your AI proficiency earlyMastering these skills turns local expertise into global capability and positions you as a well-rounded candidate for international roles.4. Build Your Online Presence:In the global market, if you aren't visible, you don't exist. Keep LinkedIn and other professional profiles updated with your education, certifications, publications, and international experience. Optimize your profile, and use relevant keywords in your niche on your bio and about page. This makes it easier for global recruiters to find you. Your LinkedIn profile should be more than a digital CV; it should be a thought-leadership hub. Use the "Soft-Sell" Strategy, so instead of just posting "I'm happy to announce...", write a short piece on how the latest CBN circular affects foreign direct investment. Share articles, insights, or case commentaries on relevant issues and emerging sectors. This builds credibility and draws attention from global firms.5. Pursue Certifications and Specialisations:Think of certifications not just as "extra certificates," but as global currency. They translate your Nigerian experience into a language that international hiring managers understand immediately. The goal is to choose specializations where Nigeria is a key player in the global conversation. For instance:International Arbitration: Cross-border contracts almost always include an arbitration clause. Being a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) tells the world you can handle high-stakes disputes without a courtroom.Data Privacy and Tech Law: Multinational tech companies are desperate for "Privacy Counsel" who understand how to harmonize African data laws (like the NDPR) with global standards. Equally, as Nigerian startups scale globally, they face the GDPR (Europe) and CCPA (California) data laws. Hence, getting a certification like The Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) is a great way to position yourself globally.These certifications differentiate you, boost credibility, and make you attractive to multinational firms or international organizations. Start with online or modular programs to balance learning with work commitments.6. Network and Seek Mentorship:Global opportunities also move through whispers and informal conversations, so: Join International Legal Associations: Groups like the International Bar Association (IBA) provide access to committees, webinars, publications, and networking events which makes the membership fee worth it. .Attend conferences and forums: Participate in events, even virtually, to engage in discussions, present papers, and build relationships.Find a Global Mentor: Look for Nigerian lawyers who have successfully transitioned to international roles or firms. Most are willing to give back if you approach them with a specific, thoughtful question.Focus on meaningful engagement and gradual growth of your network. These relationships help turn local expertise into international opportunities.7. Understand the Market and Apply Strategically:Research the legal market and approach applications thoughtfully:Identify target firms and organisations: Look for global firms with African practices, Nigerian firms with international partnerships, and multinational organisations recruiting lawyers with Nigerian expertise.Tailor your applications: Highlight cross-border experience, certifications, multilingual skills, and how your Nigerian background helps bridge local and global contexts.Emphasise transferable skills: Show research, drafting, negotiation, and cultural intelligence that apply across jurisdictions. Highlight practical experience in sectors like finance, energy, or trade.Build a focused list of opportunities, refine your applications, and follow up professionally. Consistent effort converts preparation into real international roles. ConclusionStay persistent, keep learning, and engage meaningfully with mentors and peers. Every step strengthens your ability to compete on the global stage. Remember: your Nigerian base is a launchpad, not a limit—and with the right platforms, resources, and community (like TR Thrive), you can turn local expertise into worldwide impact.Written by: Abdulhakeem Abdulhafeez DamilareEdited by: Chimamanda Augustine

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Property Document Recovery

This is a gig to recover a client’s property document. I’m looking for a qualified lawyer based in Ibadan to assist with reclaiming an important property document currently held by a commercial bank in the city. The document has been with the bank for several years in relation to an outstanding facility, and my client is now ready to clear the remaining balance and regularise the entire matter.The lawyer will be required to communicate with the bank, verify the status of the facility, review the supporting evidence already available, and take the necessary steps to ensure the release of the property document once all obligations are resolved. The goal is to complete this process efficiently, lawfully, and with full documentation of every step taken. We will also be providing the remaining debt owed to the bank, which is less than a million naira.

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Legal Marketing Intern (Contract – 1 Month)

Okay, so this is a gig and not a job. We are looking for someone to work as a foot soldier for a month, a proactive Legal Marketer Intern to support our digital operations, community engagement, and platform management. This gig is ideal for a law graduate or young lawyer who is active within the legal community and plugged into multiple lawyers’ or law students’ WhatsApp groups. The ideal candidate is tech-savvy, reliable, and able to deliver consistently without excuses. It is designed for someone who can commit to light weekly hours while driving real impact.Key ResponsibilitiesShare platform updates, opportunities, and announcements across relevant lawyers’ and law students’ WhatsApp groups.Post regular content updates on the platform to maintain engagement and visibility.Support the management team with administrative and operational tasks as needed.Monitor user activities to ensure full compliance with platform rules and terms of use.Identify, report, and follow up on bugs, errors, or glitches within the platform.Assist in executing marketing campaigns targeted at the legal community.Track engagement metrics and provide periodic feedback for platform improvement.  

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