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 currently an Associate with BOYNECLARKE LLP, practicing primarily Corporate & Commercial Law, Real Estate, and Intellectual Property Law. She also chairs the firm’s Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Reconciliation Committee. Lola is passionate about developing others and making an impact through advocacy and community work. She regularly advocates for equity, diversity and inclusion 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), Vice-President of the Association of Nigerians in Nova Scotia, and has been a Judge with the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Oxford since 2015. She is also the former Community Liaison of CABL-NS, and former Vice-Chair of the CBA-NS Law Student section.