On September 24, Mohamed Tumi returned to Tripoli to reopen his eponymous firm. Until this past spring, when the civil war made the practice of law impossible, his firm was Libya’s largest, with 17 lawyers working Wall Street–type hours drafting banking, oil, and infrastructure contracts. The firm has long been affiliated with Denton Wilde Sapte, now SNR Denton, but Tumi, 52, has worked with many of the global firms and companies doing business with the Qaddafi regime.
This was Tumi’s third homecoming in three decades. Each time he left the country, he departed not knowing whether—and when—he would be able to return. The first time he left was in 1979, soon after he opened his first law office. That year, Qaddafi’s government banned the private practice of law. Since Tumi didn’t want to work for the government, he moved to the United States and enrolled in grad school.
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