THE Legal Sector has birthed a new addition with a firm of leading lawyers led by Olasupo Shasore SAN. Olasupo Shasore is among five prominent lawyers who have left their respective law firms to start USL, which stands for Ukiri, Shasore and Lijadu. USL has its headquarters at 8, Kasunmu Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Shasore and two others, Ovie Ukiri and Olufemi Lijadu recently left Nigerian law firm, Ajumogobia & Okeke where they had been partners. Oyinkan Badejo-Okunsanya, a former civil servant with the Lagos State Government and Folashade Alli, a principal solicitor with Vatad Solicitors are the two others that make up the five-person strong partnership.

Described on the company’s website (www.usl-law.com) as ‘Nigeria’s first truly African Law Firm’, the company also claims to have been “deliberately designed and evolved over decades of practice” and has named all the aforementioned lawyers as partners.

It is expected that the new law firm will contribute to solving Nigeria’s infamous issue of unemployment, while contributing its quota to upholding the integrity of the legal system and the country’s judiciary.