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Philadelphia to spend one year in the US. to be
acquainted with the American Law practice with
law firms in Washington D.C. Boston, Los Anglos
and San Francisco. He also obtained a Diploma in
American and International Law from SMU in
Dallas Texas. Following Mahgoub’s death Mr.
Karib established his own law firm. Mr. Medani
who worked for a short period in the Sudan
Judiciary, later joined the academia as a
lecturer in the abovementioned Faculty of Law
after earning his LL.M. in London University and
Ph.D.at Edinburgh University. He then left Sudan
to work for the UN Organisation and the World
Bank until his return to the Sudan when in 1978
they joined hands to establish the present law
firm, EKM. Prior to his final
return to Sudan, Dr. Medani was Representative
of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – UN
in Gaza and occupied Territories, in Palestine,
in Kosovo, in Kabul, in Baghdad, Iraq and for
the Arab Countries stationed in Beirut.
Partner Yahya: LLB Honours. University of
Khartoum. Spent some years as senior managing
counsel at the leading Saudi Arabia Law Offices
of Alim in Jeddah.
Partner Amani: is an LLB Honours, University of
Khartoum, an LLM. University of Pretoria South
Africa.
Associate Samawal, is an LLB Honours University
of Khartoum. He was selected as the Sudan's
candidate for the International Lawyers for
Africa (ILFA) 2008 Programme; he spent a period
of 3 months training with the law firm of SJ
Berwin LLP, London Office.
Since then the Partnership [EKM,]
with its two Senior Partners, joined by other
partners, associates and trainees assisted by an
adequate number of support staff, claims to be
the largest firm in the Sudan with
specialization in the number of various branches
of the law mentioned elsewhere in this record.
The firm has its own office villa situated
outside the beaten track of down town Khartoum. |
