About KS Alumni

Mr. Kehinde Sofola, a teacher of lawyers, Mr. Sofola was the Principal Partner and Head of Kehinde Sofola & Co, also known as Ewenla Chambers, established in 1954. He devoted a significant part of his career to training new wigs who served tutelage in his chambers. He was not just a lawyer, but a teacher of lawyers. 

He trained numerous legal practitioners, legal officers and judicial officers. Kehinde Sofola Alumni include two Justices of the Supreme Court, the late Justice Michael Ekundayo Ogundare JSC and late Justice Olajide Olatawura JSC, Justice of the Court of Appeal, Justice Abimbola Obaseki- Adejumo, former Chief Judge of Lagos State, retired Justice Ayo Phillips etc, numerous Senior Advocates of the Federation including Kehinde Onofowokan SAN, Dr. Mudiaga Odje SAN, Prof. Gbolahan Elias SAN, Mrs Phoebe Ajayi-Obe SAN, Olumide Sofowora SAN, Lanre Ogunlesi SAN, and innumerable, successful legal practitioners. 

He trained his own family to be lawyers, too: his brother, the late Chief Idowu Sofola SAN; his nephew, Kunle Sofola SAN; and three of his own children, Kayode Sofola SAN, Dr. Olatokunbo Sofola and Ms. Adefowora Sofola.