Semper Fidelis Attorneys & Solicitors

01/01/2017

Happy New Year!!!!

02/08/2016

Dear Friends,

Lagos State government needed land to widen an important road in its effort to construct the 4th Mainland Bridge. Without prior notice, a public hearing, or payment of compensation, it seized a four-foot-wide strip of Mark’s land for the road.

Please ask your lawyer these questions:

1. Do governments have the power to take private property in this manner?
2. What can Mark do in the interim to ensure he recovers his land?
3. What would be the government’s strongest legal argument for the seizure?

SEMPER FIDELIS Attorneys & Solicitors is a full-service law firm based in Dolphin Estate Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria.
+234-1-4605494
www.semfilaw.com
[email protected]

The practice of law may be the essence of what we do, but our commitment to clients defines who we are!

To be Africa's largest, finest and brightest wholesale law firm.

19/07/2016

ASK YOUR LAWYER: SERIES 002

The labour strike was in its fifth bitter week. The strikers were as tense and angry as the workers who had remained on the job. For several days, about a thousand picketers gathered at the company’s main gate, chanting slogans and jeering those who entered the plant. Then a company truck was set on fire and destroyed. Management went to court seeking protection.

Ask your lawyer these questions:
1. What could a court do?
2. What could be the striking workers’ argument in court?

SEMPER FIDELIS Attorneys & Solicitors is a full-service law firm based in Dolphin Estate Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria.
+234-1-4605494
www.semfilaw.com
[email protected]

The practice of law may be the essence of what we do, but our commitment to clients defines who we are!

To be Africa's largest, finest and brightest wholesale law firm.

14/07/2016

ASK YOUR LAWYER: SERIES 001

While driving towards an intersection, Bridget sees the green traffic light change to yellow. Attempting to “beat the signal,” she accelerates, racing to avoid seeing the red light. But the light turns red seconds before she reaches it. Brakes screech, then Bridget smashes into the side of an SUV moving across the intersection. Bridget is knocked unconscious and partially paralyzed. Then the other driver is killed, and two passengers are seriously injured.

Ask your lawyer these questions:
1. What kinds of law have been violated?
2. What will happen to the claims of the two injured passengers if Bridget dies?
3. What defence could Bridget raise in court?

SEMPER FIDELIS Attorneys & Solicitors is a full-service law firm based in Dolphin Estate Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria.
+234-1-4605494
www.semfilaw.com
[email protected]

The practice of law may be the essence of what we do, but our commitment to clients defines who we are!

To be Africa's largest, finest and brightest wholesale law firm.

08/07/2016

Dear Friends,

We began sending articles on YOUR BUSINESS AND THE LAW in 2012. We were able to sustain the practice because the encouragement we got from readers was overwhelming. Since then, we have covered a wide range of topics targeted at helping you run your business in accordance with laws and regulations.

Though it is almost impossible to “cover the field” with our articles, we sensed the notion that monotony had set in. We got the impression that there was the need to diversify the content and focus of our articles. The decision to suspend articles on YOUR BUSINESS AND THE LAW was finally made when we recently got confirmatory feedback from some of our readers. With the feedbacks, we became convinced that a change was necessary.

Consequently, we began to think of other ways we could be relevant to you with our legal knowledge and practice. After much consideration, we decided on an ASK YOUR LAWYER campaign. This decision is borne out of our fundamental belief that every person (corporate or individual) should have a lawyer who correctly answers all legal questions pertaining to it.

We are convinced that any person who operates without a lawyer is like a moving train without breaks – it will crash sooner or later. As a result, we feel obliged to kill the tradition of self-help in legal issues and at the same time wake up the non-lawyers’ consciousness to directing legal questions to their own lawyers.

ASK YOUR LAWYER is our attempt to engender closer ties between lawyers and the general public. We believe every person should have a lawyer it relates with on a regular basis. With ASK YOUR LAWYER, we create legal scenarios from everyday occurrences and ask questions only a lawyer can answer. Non-lawyers can only guess the answers. But why guess the answer when you can ask your lawyer? Why take the risk when you can be sure?

Starting from next week and using ASK YOUR LAWYER, we will begin to send to you short legal scenarios with legal questions at the end. We hope these questions will make you retain an individual or corporate lawyer. As always, we count on your feedback on ASK YOUR LAWYER.

Note: Articles on YOUR BUSINESS AND THE LAW were not shared on Facebook and other social media platforms. From time to time, however, we will post some of the articles.
SEMPER FIDELIS Attorneys & Solicitors is a full-service law firm based in Dolphin Estate Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria. +234-1-4605494;

To be Africa's largest, finest and brightest wholesale law firm.