Lola Williams-Afolabi

Lola (Agbaje-Williams) Williams-Afolabi is an internationally trained lawyer with experience in Nigeria, England, and Canada. She obtained her LL.B, from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 2009, and her LL.M in Intellectual Property Law from Queen Mary, University of London in 2014. She was called to the Nigeria Bar in 2010 and the Nova Scotia Bar in 2022.

Lola is the lead counsel at Williams Armstrong LP, practicing primarily Corporate & Commercial and Intellectual Property Law, and speaks on various expert panels on Business Law, Intellectual Property Law, and Artificial Intelligence. Lola is passionate about developing others and making an impact through advocacy and community work. She regularly advocates for equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice for Internationally Trained Lawyers and members of the BIPOC community through various networks and organizations. She received the CBA-NS Community Service Award in 2022 for her outstanding commitment to the community and charitable causes.

She is Chair of the CBA-NS IP Section, a member of the CBA National Equity Liaison Group, Director of Global Lawyers of Canada (Atlantic Chapter), has been a Judge with the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Oxford since 2015 and participates as a Judge in other law moots in Canada and internationally. She is also a former Community Liaison of CABL-NS and former Vice-Chair of the CBA-NS Law Student section.