In conversation with Godwin Omoaka, Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Partner at Templars
“Jus AI doesn’t just save time. It fundamentally changes what is possible in arbitration.”
Godwin Omoaka
Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Partner, Templars
Results at a Glance
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Research time | From 2 to 3 days down to 15 to 30 minutes |
| Live hearing response | Real-time research conducted on the spot, producing well-reasoned positions during active proceedings |
| Institutional access | Exclusive arbitral awards and jurisprudence from 100+ institutional partnerships |
| Submission quality | Analysis from Jus AI is directly incorporated into pleadings, bifurcation submissions, and security for costs arguments |
| Client retention | Faster, higher-quality delivery drives repeat mandates and sustained practice growth |
About Templars
Templars is one of the leading law firms in Nigeria and, by extension, in Africa. With approximately 160 lawyers, including several Senior Advocates of Nigeria (the Nigerian equivalent of King’s Counsel), the firm handles high-stakes disputes across a wide range of jurisdictions and sectors.
Templars maintains a well-established arbitration practice, representing clients in both institutional and ad hoc arbitrations across sectors including energy, infrastructure, finance, and maritime. The firm is consistently ranked by leading legal directories, including Chambers and Partners.
What distinguishes Templars, in the words of its own partners, is a combination of deep local expertise and an international outlook. That positioning demands research capabilities that match the standards of the world’s largest firms.
The Opportunity
Operational Challenge
Before Jus AI, conducting thorough arbitration research was a time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Accessing the full range of arbitration jurisprudence, databases, and publications was genuinely difficult. Research requiring specific materials, such as recently issued tribunal awards, often meant reaching out to contacts in England, France, and the United States just to obtain information needed for an active hearing. Work that now takes under an hour would consume two to three full working days spent searching through hard-copy materials and library resources.
Strategic Challenge
For a firm of Templars’ standing, the pressure is not simply to find answers. It is to find better answers, faster, and at a cost that delivers real value to clients. In international arbitration, the margin between a well-supported submission and a weak one can determine case outcomes. The firm needed to close the gap between locating materials and deploying them strategically. Time spent on manual research was time not spent on the analysis, argumentation, and strategy that clients actually pay for.
The Solution
Templars chose Jus AI because no comparable tool existed for international arbitration practitioners. Jus AI is the only specialist arbitration database available in the market. Other general legal databases touch arbitration tangentially but do not engage with it at the depth or quality that serious arbitration work demands. Jus AI provides access to exclusive arbitral awards, jurisprudence, and publications that simply cannot be found elsewhere.
A key differentiator was Jus AI’s network of over 110 institutional partnerships, giving Templars direct access to exclusive arbitral awards from those institutions. The platform’s speed and ease of use meant the team could move from research to analysis without losing time to navigation or data gaps.
The Impact
From Days to Minutes
The most immediate and measurable impact has been the compression of research time. Research that previously took two to three days because lawyers had to work through hard copy materials and library resources now takes 15 to 30 minutes. With the click of a button, you have the basic outline, can look at the materials, and can research them. This is not a marginal efficiency gain. It is a structural change in how the team operates.
“It has cut down on research time. Facts that will typically take us about two days, three days to do, because you’re going through a lot of hard copy materials and the library, we’re looking for information now with the click of a button, and 15, 20, 30 minutes, you have the basic outline, you are able to look at them, you’re able to research them. And again, this is thanks to Jus AI.”
Research That Holds Up in the Hearing Room
Jus AI has proven its value not just in preparation but in the most pressure-filled moments of an arbitration. Godwin described a live hearing where opposing counsel raised a point he had not anticipated. Rather than being caught off guard, his team conducted real-time research on the spot, leveraging Jus AI, and was able to articulate a well-reasoned position built on the materials retrieved in the moment.
“Before Jus AI, you wouldn’t be able to offer that sort of instantaneous response. Jus AI makes you able to do that in real time,” says Godwin.
That capability, responding authoritatively to unanticipated points during a live hearing, represents a meaningful competitive advantage.
Stronger Submissions, More Authoritative Arguments
In bifurcation proceedings involving an institutional arbitral matter, Godwin used Jus AI to develop a thorough understanding of the issues at stake. The analysis retrieved from Jus AI was brought directly into the firm’s pleadings and submissions, enhancing the quality of the arguments presented to the tribunal.
In a separate matter involving security for costs before ICC, the team used Jus Mundi to access publications within the ICC Dispute Resolution Library. Those materials were, in Godwin’s words, “very helpful, incredibly helpful” for understanding how the concept applied across institutions. The result was a more precisely targeted and well-refined set of submissions that gave the client a clear competitive advantage.
“The quality of materials that you find in Jus AI is such that it corresponds to improving the quality of the work you offer, because it’s not only saving time, it’s helping you to improve your service delivery to your client.”
A Deeper Shift: From Locating to Thinking
The impact Godwin returns to most consistently is not speed alone. It is what speed unlocks:
“What I find most valuable is the fact that Jus AI shifts the focus from just simply locating the materials into deeper analysis and strategy, and that helps broaden the scope of our practice, because we are able to focus a lot of time on the strategy and the analysis.”
Client Retention and Practice Growth
The business impact extends beyond individual cases. By delivering faster and with higher quality, Templars has strengthened its client relationships in a direct and measurable way. Clients return because the firm delivers on time and delivers quality. That repeated work creates the opportunity to grow the practice:
“It alters fundamentally how quickly and efficiently we deliver services to our clients. For us, equally, it’s transformative in the sense that we are able to undertake a deeper research within a shorter time period, and we’re able to provide solutions to our clients within a quick time.”
Closing Value
For Templars, Jus AI is not a research shortcut. It is a strategic tool that has fundamentally changed what the firm can accomplish and how fast it can do it. Research that once consumed days now takes minutes. Arguments that once required transatlantic calls to piece together are now built in the room, in real time, from the most authoritative sources available. The time freed from manual research goes directly into strategy, analysis, and the kind of thinking that clients and tribunals remember.
As Godwin Omoaka concluded, Jus AI is now an indispensable tool that any serious arbitration practitioner cannot do without.
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