It is difficult not to be enthusiastic about the law when in the company of Kemi Pinheiro, SAN. He lives and breathes the law and has done since he was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1987. ...

t is difficult not to be enthusiastic about the law when in the company of Kemi Pinheiro, SAN. He lives and breathes the law and has done since he was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1987. From then, he was on the up and up, until sometime in 2005 when he very nearly lost it all in an unfortunate event which brought his name to public limelight, though perhaps not in the way he would have imagined it in his wildest imaginations. And he has the internal scars to show for it. Quite markedly different from an external scar he's had on his face since childhood when he walked right through a glass door whilst playing with his friends. 'We were playing a rough game' he recalls ruefully, 'it was called craze man!'

FUNKE ABOYADE and JUDE IGBANOI were with him in his chambers in Ilupeju, Lagos where he shared his thoughts on practice issues, experiences and life's trajectories