It is a parent's pride when their young ones decide to continue the family legacy and follow in their footsteps - a trend that has seen most politician's kids step into the limelight and follow suit.
Lawyer Christabel Mideva, daughter of the Law Society of Kenya President, Nelson Havi, is a chip off the old block.
Mideva is the eldest daughter in a family of three kids. Coming from a family of lawyers, the bar has been set for Mideva to surpass her parent's legacy, literally. But in Mideva's case, the sky is the limit.
She was recently featured on Palm Magazine as one of Africa's top legal Millenials - a notable feat.
While speaking to the publication on September 14, 2021, she stated that the legal profession embodies a symbiotic relationship among different disciplines - a field that has exposed her to new knowledge and ideas.
"The profession is a hub of networks, with different areas of law enjoying a symbiotic relationship ensuring that none is considered as more superior than the other," she stated.
Efforts to reach Mideva for a comment by Kenyans.co.ke were futile by the time of going to press.
Bio
A bright mind since the onset, Mideva attended Alliance Girls High School between 2008 and 2011.
She enrolled at the University of Nairobi (UoN) in 2012 to pursue a Bachelor of Laws degree. After graduating in 2016, she rejoined the university in 2017 and graduated with a Masters of Laws, Law, Governance and Democracy in 2018.
Work Experience
In 2015, she worked as a research assistant at the National Crime Research Centre for five months before embarking on her legal career in 2016 when she joined Prof Albert Mumma & Co, Advocates as an intern.
She later went back to UoN to work as a research assistant for one year before ultimately joining her father's company, Havi & Co. Advocates, in 2018. At the time, she was admitted to the bar in November that year.
After a ten-month tenure at the company, she would join Nyaanga & Mugisha Co. Advocates as an associate legal counsel. She stayed at the company for 2 years and 11 months before her departure for the UK in 2019, where she currently serves as a Graduate Researcher and Teaching Assistant at the University of Kent.
Mideva also sits as a member of the Gender Committee at the Law Society of Kenya and has previously noted that her future interests are in empowering women to more positions of power and governance.
"Well, my dreams and ambitions are a cocktail of the effort and doing of an army of women that thought of me and have continued to think of me as deserving over the years."
"By that I mean, they have shown unadulterated love and commitment to my success and growth”, she recently stated.
