NBA LAGOS HOLDS MENTORING SESSION FOR YOUNG LAWYERS

 Young lawyers under the Nigeria Lagos Branch were this week taking through sessions on mentoring by senior members of the bar.

The mentoring session was organised by the mentoring committee of NBA Lagos under the theme What Young lawyers should know.

Mr. Lawal Pedro, who was the first speaker, praise the committee for organising the event for young lawyers. He recalled when he was a young lawyer how he looked up good quality advice.

He maintains that he got mentioned by some of the best brains in the profession at that time like Justice

Akinsanya, Ross Vivour. He further told the young lawyers to be hardworking, disciplined, and sacrifice.

He further encourages the young lawyers to look for mentors who will help them in decision-making.

Also speaking the company secretary of channels television,  Mrs. Adeola Olumeyau, just like Mr. Pedro, shared her experience as a single young female lawyer up to her present status as a married lawyer.

She maintains that Networking is a very important tool that has helped her and she believed will help them too.

She also challenged the young lawyers to understand themselves and seek to help their bosses to find solutions to problems.

There were contributions from the Chairman of NBA Lagos Mr. Ikechukwu Umanna who advised the young lawyers not to go about looking for money. But that they should work the time and money will come. He also advises them to find and connect with good experience senior lawyers who will mentor them to where they want to go in life.

The chairmen of the mentoring committee NBA Lagos Mrs. Abimbola Akeredolu thank the senior lawyers who were present for coming to share their experiences. She further advised the lawyers to take all that they have been told seriously.