Business of Law
The Firm of the Future
Boutique, borderless, and quietly rewiring how African commercial practice is built.
Tunde Alabi · Contributing Writer · 12 April 2026 · 11 min
Ten lawyers. Four cities. One shared cloud. The modern African commercial firm is smaller, faster and stranger than the institutions that raised it.
We visit five practices that have abandoned the partnership pyramid in favour of something closer to a design studio.
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