The Law Platfrom celebrates a legal mind every first day of each month

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Our Star commands the respect of Judges, Lawyers and all students at the minting academy for lawyers. Our Star stands out as a mentor, trainer, teacher and leader at the Bar. Our Star is a prominent lawyer and legal professional with a distinguished career spanning over two decades. She is the Managing Partner and head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution at Sam Okudzeto & Associates, a leading law firm in Ghana.

Our Star is a courageous advocate, graceful in speech and methodic in argumentation. Our Star is the current Vice President of the Association of Lawyers in Ghana with contributions to the work of the Bar at both the Regional and National level. Our Star stands as the only second female Vice President of the Bar in its 70 years of existence. The Law Platform celebrates the bold, energetic, disciplined and sharp-minded Victoria Barth Esq.

EDUCATION

QCL - Ghana School of Law - 2002

Dip, Legal Practitioner’s course, University of Law Guildford, 2000

LLB , University of Southampton, 1999

SOME POSITIONS HELD/HOLDING

Managing Partner - Sam Okudzeto & Associates

Head of Department - Advocacy and Legal Ethics, Ghana School of Law

Member - International Chamber of Commerce - 2024-2027

Member - ICC Task Force on “Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration.”

Vice President- Ghana Bar Association

Secretary - Adhoc Committee for Review of Legal Profession Bill

Secretary - Scale of Fees Review Committee

Member - General Legal Council Committee for drafting Guidelines on Continuing Professional Development

Secretary, Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Ghana Bar Association

Assistant State Attorney, Civil Division of the Attorney-General’s Department - 2002

Junior Associate - Sam Okudzeto & Associates - 2003

Non-Executive Director - Prudential Bank Limited

Non-Executive Director - SOS Children's Villages Association (Gh)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

"Excellence in Law & Leadership, particularly in Litigation" by the Institute for Women in Law (IAWL) in 2022.

In 2015, she was also awarded "Young Managing Partner of the Year" by the Law Digest Africa Awards