Category: The Millennials
Bernard Mukasa: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Bernard Mukasa is a Partner in the Corporate Advisory Team at Ortus Advocates, a thriving law firm based in Uganda. Bernard possesses a wealth of experience of over 12 years. Bernard’s experience includes providing strategic advice on commercial transactions, employment and labour advisory, and intellectual property matters, including structuring and management, due diligence, investigations and advising on, and drafting, commercial and licence agreements.
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Lebani Mazhani: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Lebani Mazhani is a Medical Lawyer (LLM Medical Law and Ethics, University of Kent UK) who is driven by a personal passion for health law. As a Cancer patient in 2014 navigating the healthcare system, she was awakened to the many loopholes in the processes and realised the opportunities for the law to mitigate those shortfalls. She became an avid Cancer Awareness Activist, authoring a booklet series and using her public speaking strengths to advocate for equitable access to healthcare. Her work gained her recognition as one of Botswana’s 50 Changemakers Under 40 in 2016, and her message of Hope reached international audiences.
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Sunday Ndamugoba: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Sunday Ndamugoba is an advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and Courts subordinate thereto save for Primary Court. He is an advocate of the High Court of Zanzibar and Courts subordinate thereto save for Primary and Kadhi Courts. He is also an Arbitrator with the Tanzania Institute of Arbitration and an Accredited Arbitrator and Mediator with the Tanzania Arbitration Centre under the Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs. More so, he is a UK Chattered Trademark Attorney.
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Okechukwu Orisakwe: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Okechukwu is an Associate in the London offices of PGMBM, an international group litigation law firm. He is currently involved in pursuing justice for thousands of claimants in multi-million-pound litigation against certain car manufacturers who sold cars fitted with defeat devices to cheat prior regulatory emissions checks whereas those cars would emit higher levels of harmful Nitrogen Oxides in real-world driving.
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Robert Muigai: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Robert is an award-winning lawyer who possesses skills in different fields. He holds a Second Class Upper Bachelor of Laws degree from Strathmore University and is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He recently won the Nairobi Legal Award for Young Lawyer of the year which was the first time a private consultant won this award.
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Leisa Leisanyane: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Advocate Leisa Leisanyane is a Lesotho born and bred legal practitioner, educator and certified Business Development Services (BDS) provider who is featured in this Millennials edition. In addition to a catalogue of academic qualifications and training he has, which includes, certification in compliance management, drafting of commercial contracts, risk management,
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Wycklife Odhiambo Oyoo: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Wycklife Odhiambo Oyoo is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Moi University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law. He is an Associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Kaplan & Stratton Advocates.
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Sebastian La Hausse de Lalouvière: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Sebastian La Hausse de Lalouvière is a seasoned general counsel who hails from Mauritius and South Africa with over 8 years’ experience advising on corporate, regulatory, compliance and legal matters for some of the largest publicly listed companies in Mauritius, which operate in various industries both locally and internationally.
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Christabel Mideva Eboso: Africa’s Legal Millennial
As an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya of three years, practising at the Firm of Nyaanga & Mugisha Advocates, a PhD Researcher a lecturer of Public Law and a Fellow of the Associate Fellowship Scheme at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, Christabel Mideva Eboso, is our millennial in this edition.
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Jean-Marc OTENGA: Africa’s Legal Millennial
As the son of a lawyer, Jean-Marc has always had the law in his veins; it was a logical step when deciding which field to study at university, he chose law. Jean-Marc started a career in the banking industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) before he switched to Law. To date, the law has remained an area he was very interested in and, as such, he decided to leave the financial world and take up a position as in-house counsel (in which he could devote himself permanently to law).
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Lenin Tinashe Chisaira: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Richelle Mead while understanding that there are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration, must have been directly referring to our Millennial feature, Lenin Tinashe Chisaira, an activist, socialist, writer, and environmental lawyer based in Harare, Zimbabwe as the gem. He is the Founder and Director of Advocates4Earth, a non-profit, public interest environmental law, climate, and wildlife justice organisation based in Harare, Zimbabwe but focusing on Global South
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Ribin N. Ondwari: Africa’s Legal Millennial
Ribin Ondwari is a Partner and Head of Real Estate, Banking and Financial Services at Ashitiva Advocates LLP in Nairobi, Kenya. Ribin is regarded as one of Kenya’s fastest rising lawyers. Multifaceted logic is Ribin’s thing, hence he is adept at banking & financial services law, real estate, capital markets transactions, insolvency & corporate restructuring and energy law.
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