Specialist practice Detail Dispute Lawyers launched by Isaiah Bozimo SAN and Laura Alakija

The launch of new Nigerian law firm Detail Dispute Lawyers (DDL) yesterday brings together the disputes practice that Isaiah Bozimo SAN previously conducted at Broderick Bozimon & Company with the arbitration practice of Laura Alakija & Co to “create a stronger, more focused platform”, say the new firm’s co-founders. 

Based in Lagos and Abuja, DDL has been established as a specialist disputes practice and will focus on commercial and investment arbitration, arbitration-related court proceedings, complex commercial litigation, and dispute strategy.

DDL co-founder Isaiah Bozimo SAN is a distinguished legal professional and chartered arbitrator who was appointed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2023. 

In 2024 he became the second Nigerian to be appointed as a Vice-President of the ICC Court of International Arbitration, following Funke Adekoya SAN. Bozimo also served as Delta State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in 2021-2023, during which time he significantly contributed to key legal reforms, including the Delta State Arbitration Law of 2022 and Nigeria’s new Arbitration and Mediation Act.

“Working alongside Isaiah Bozimo SAN, whose experience in arbitration and commercial disputes is widely respected, adds real depth to this next phase,” says DDL co-founder Laura Alakija, who is a highly experienced international arbitration practitioner, and a delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. 

A law graduate of the University of Jos, with an LLM from the University of Derby in the UK, Alakija has twenty years legal experience, and is a renowned ADR practitioner. She has acted in arbitrations conducted under both institutional and ad hoc rules, including ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICSID, LCA and other regional frameworks.

“I could not be happier to be undertaking this new venture together with Laura Alakija FCIArb, whose work in arbitration and commercial disputes I have long respected,” says Bozimo of his co-founder of DDL. 

Alakija was named a Rising Star by the Nigerian Legal Awards in 2019, as one of Africa’s 30 Most Promising Arbitrators in 2022 by the African Arbitration Academy, and has been listed as an Arbitration Future Leader (Partner) in 2024 and 2025 by Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal). From 2020 to 2023, Alakija was Managing Partner of Lagos-based full-service law firm Primera Africa Legal. 

Both Bozimo and Alakija say they are looking forward to continuing their disputes work with colleagues, clients, and peers across the arbitration and disputes community, and to building new collaborations as the new firm moves forward.

Alongside the founding partners, the new firm includes Managing Associate Daniel Ihueze and Senior Associate Afolasade Banjo, who have followed Isaiah Bozimo SAN from the disputes practice of Broderick Bozimon & Company, along with associate Ololade Adelaja, who qualified as a barrister and solicitor in late 2025, and previously worked as a Judicial Assistant in the Lagos State Judiciary. 

The co-founders shared that DDL is also in a strategic alliance with Detail Commercial Solicitors, established in 2000 by Ayuli Jemide as Nigeria's first commercial solicitor firm to specialise exclusively in non court-room practice. 

“While each firm remains fully independent,” say Bozimo and Alakija, “This arrangement allows clients to benefit from coordinated support across disputes, corporate, commercial and regulatory matters.”

For more information on Detail Dispute Lawyers, visit their website.