At MULAN 2025 in Ilorin, a litigation-focused practitioner reflects on artificial intelligence not as an abstraction or policy, but as a practical tool whose value depends on responsibility, ethical steadiness, and service within the daily life of the profession.
Within professional gatherings, some contributions are best understood not through formal presentations but through the practical orientation lawyers bring from their daily work. Ahmad Kamilu Paki attended MULAN 2025 as a delegate from Kano State, approaching the conference from the standpoint of a courtroom practitioner whose commitments centre on litigation, institutional service, and community engagement.
His reflections situate the conference theme within practice rather than theory—emphasising usefulness, responsibility, and continuity in how legal ideas are absorbed and applied.
Professional Formation and Practice
Paki is a legal practitioner at Nasir Abdu Dangiri, SAN & Co., Kano. Born on 10 May 1988, he obtained his LL.B from Bayero University, Kano, in 2015 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2017. His work is in general legal practice, with a pronounced emphasis on courtroom litigation across a range of matters.
Beyond chambers, he serves as Publicity Secretary of the NBA Ungogo Branch, placing him within the organisational life of the profession at the branch level. He is also a member of the Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria (MULAN). These roles reflect a professional identity that combines advocacy with institutional participation.
MULAN 2025: Participation as Service
At the 2025 conference, Paki participated as a delegate. He did not present a paper and does not frame his contribution in terms of intellectual intervention. Instead, he identifies attention to the welfare of members as his primary focus—an orientation that privileges collective functioning over individual visibility.
This posture aligns with a broader professional ethic: participation as service rather than prominence, and contribution measured by usefulness rather than display.
Artificial Intelligence in Practical Terms
Paki engages the conference theme—Artificial Intelligence, Law and Religion in Nigeria—through the lens of immediate utility. He describes acquiring skills and knowledge relating to AI, particularly in support of research and information management within legal practice.
In his assessment, artificial intelligence holds promise as a tool for more efficient, knowledge-based legal research. At the same time, he recognises its ambivalence. AI, he suggests, “plays both roles”—capable of benefit and risk—without reducing ethical questions to technical fixes or policy abstractions.
Ethics, Faith, and Conduct
On ethical and religious considerations, Paki’s emphasis is grounded in conduct rather than prescription. Responsibility, in his account, is not declared through statements but exercised through consistency in professional behavior—especially in the use of tools that influence legal reasoning and outcomes.
Leadership in this context is expressed quietly: through how lawyers conduct themselves in daily practice, how they resist injustice, and how they align professional action with moral commitment.
Lawyering Beyond the Courtroom
While litigation remains central to his practice, Paki identifies promotion of the rule of law as the deeper motivation for his career. He extends his legal engagement into community development associations, applying legal knowledge beyond formal proceedings.
This blend of courtroom advocacy and community involvement reflects an understanding of legal practice as both institutional and social—serving courts, clients, and the wider civic environment.
Counsel and Continuity
To younger Muslim lawyers and law students, Paki offers concise counsel: stand against injustice. The instruction is deliberately spare, leaving its weight to implication. Professional competence, in this framing, is incomplete without moral resolve.
Closing Reflection
Following MULAN 2025, Paki emphasises that the value of conferences lies not in attendance alone, but in translation—how ideas and skills acquired are carried back into chambers, courts, and professional associations.
His profile contributes a working-practitioner perspective to the MULAN 2025 Edition, illustrating how national conversations about technology, ethics, and faith are ultimately realised in the everyday practice of law.
