Journeys Of The Internationally Trained Lawyer
JITL PODCAST Internationally Trained Lawyers arrive with years of legal knowledge, professional experience, resilience, and the courage to leave behind everything familiar in pursuit of new opportunities. The ITL talent pool is one of the most tested, one of the most resilient and one of the most underutilized in Canada. And hiring ITLs is not a charity. It's actually really tapping into a pool of talent that can even offer more. The above was one of the many powerful insights I took away from my recent conversation with Kenny Okunola, Corporate & Securities Lawyer, President and Co-Founder of the Internationally Trained Lawyers Network, on the latest episode of the Journeys of the Internationally Trained Lawyer (JITL) Podcast . In this episode, Kenny shares how a childhood fascination with the then Minister of Justice in Nigeria inspired him to study law, why he left a successful corporate legal career in Nigeria to build a new one in Canada, and the realities of navigating th...
