The firm has practised from the same city for four decades. What follows is an account of how it is organised, the work it takes on, and who is answerable for it.
M.N. Duru & Co was established in 1985 to provide legal counsel from a base in Kano. The firm has not moved and has not merged, and it practises from that city today.
That history places the practice inside the commercial and civic life of Northern Nigeria. Matters here turn as often on how a market, a regulator or a court in this part of the federation operates as on the text of a statute.
The firm is a partnership of legal practitioners. It is regulated by the Nigerian Bar Association and the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, and it practises under the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners.
Image placeholder. To replace: the Kano chambers, or the city the firm has practised in since 1985. This frame is stock and is not of either.
A general practice: three principal areas, and a wider civil and criminal practice around them.
Commercial agreements and their negotiation, corporate governance and regulatory obligations, secured lending and recovery, and the employment matters that arise inside a workforce: terminations, staff injury claims, and disputes over contractual terms.
Criminal defence, including matters of homicide and allegations of corruption. Employment claims brought against an employer. Property, land and family matters, and the enforcement of fundamental rights.
Petitions brought and defended before election petition tribunals, appeals from those tribunals, and the pre-election questions of nomination and eligibility that precede them.
The firm declines instructions where a conflict exists, and where it cannot be satisfied that the account it is given is a candid one. Both checks happen before a matter is accepted, not after.
Regulated and high-value sectors where the applicable rules shape the advice as much as the general law does. Clients are not named here: the firm does not publish the identity of those it acts for.
The firm practises under the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners in Nigeria and is subject to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee and the Nigerian Bar Association.
Those rules govern this website too. They restrict what a Nigerian legal practitioner may publish about their practice: no statement about the quality of the work, the size or success of the practice or its rate of success, no comparison with other lawyers, and no testimonial. You will find none of those here. What you will find is a description of the work and the facts that can be verified.
Enquiries are routed to the practice desk that will handle them.