Partner, Olumide Akpata, nominated as a member of the IBA President’s Task Force on the Future of Legal Services.

The task force is saddled with the responsibility of working on a defined project which will have a real impact on the future of the global legal profession. The project which has been split into three phases has a different focus for each phase among which includes a global review of the changes affecting the legal profession and identifying what the IBA can do for its members to enable them cope with the change, manage the change or prevent the change as a value-add to the existing body of knowledge.

Olumide, who is one of the two Africans nominated and the only Nigerian on the taskforce is looking forward to serving and contributing towards the sustainable development of the legal profession across the globe.