[SURVEY] Remuneration And Scale Of Charges For Lawyers: NBA President Calls On Lawyers To Support NBA Committee With Inputs

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Olumide
Akpata, has called on lawyers to assist the NBA Remuneration
Committee in coming up with an enforceable framework for charging
legal fees of legal fees by lawyers

In a statement made available to Nairalaw, Akpata said
the Committee has been meeting periodically and will soon send out
questionnaires to lawyers.

Read the full statement below:

Dear Colleague,

As part of our commitment towards improving the earning
capacity of lawyers in Nigeria, my team and I recently set up (with
the National Executive Committee) a Remuneration Committee for the
Nigerian Bar Association (the “Committee”). The Committee is to,
broadly speaking, design a workable and enforceable framework under
which lawyers will (i) charge the right fees for their legal
services using acceptable and realistic metrics; and (ii) ensure
that those fees, when earned, trickle down, in terms of reasonable
living wages and emoluments, to those who work with, or for, the
lawyers.

This project is not only important to me but is also
necessary for the economic well-being and advancement of our
members. It is for this reason that I am writing to you.

Since setting up the Committee, the members of the Committee
have been meeting periodically to deliver on their mandate. As part
of that process and in order to get inputs from lawyers themselves,
the Committee has (a) put together a questionnaire to be completed
by lawyers; and (b) appointed a consultant, Viisaus Technology
Limited, to carry out a random survey amongst lawyers via phone
calls and other means.

The Committee needs your input to develop a robust and
largely acceptable framework. The NBA therefore encourages you to
kindly participate in the process and cooperate with the
consultants, if contacted. In the interim, please click HERE^[1] to complete the
remuneration/scale of charges questionnaire no later than 18th July
2021.

The consultants will not ask you for any banking or other
sensitive information. I also have the assurance of the Committee
and the consultants that all information provided will be treated
with utmost confidentiality.

Thank you for your cooperation and have a great week
ahead.

Sincerely,

OLUMIDE AKPATA
President
Nigerian Bar Association

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Olumide
Akpata, has called on lawyers to assist the NBA Remuneration
Committee in coming up with an enforceable framework for charging
legal fees of legal fees by lawyers

In a statement made available to Nairalaw, Akpata said
the Committee has been meeting periodically and will soon send out
questionnaires to lawyers.

Read the full statement below:

Dear Colleague,

As part of our commitment towards improving the earning
capacity of lawyers in Nigeria, my team and I recently set up (with
the National Executive Committee) a Remuneration Committee for the
Nigerian Bar Association (the “Committee”). The Committee is to,
broadly speaking, design a workable and enforceable framework under
which lawyers will (i) charge the right fees for their legal
services using acceptable and realistic metrics; and (ii) ensure
that those fees, when earned, trickle down, in terms of reasonable
living wages and emoluments, to those who work with, or for, the
lawyers.

This project is not only important to me but is also
necessary for the economic well-being and advancement of our
members. It is for this reason that I am writing to you.

Since setting up the Committee, the members of the Committee
have been meeting periodically to deliver on their mandate. As part
of that process and in order to get inputs from lawyers themselves,
the Committee has (a) put together a questionnaire to be completed
by lawyers; and (b) appointed a consultant, Viisaus Technology
Limited, to carry out a random survey amongst lawyers via phone
calls and other means.

The Committee needs your input to develop a robust and
largely acceptable framework. The NBA therefore encourages you to
kindly participate in the process and cooperate with the
consultants, if contacted. In the interim, please click HERE^[1] to complete the
remuneration/scale of charges questionnaire no later than 18th July
2021.

The consultants will not ask you for any banking or other
sensitive information. I also have the assurance of the Committee
and the consultants that all information provided will be treated
with utmost confidentiality.

Thank you for your cooperation and have a great week
ahead.

Sincerely,

OLUMIDE AKPATA
President
Nigerian Bar Association