Suleiman Oko-ogua is an Associate in Bailey & Wyant, PLLC’s Charleston Office. Suleiman is originally from Nigeria, West Africa and moved to the United States in 1997 to attend College. He graduated from Berea College in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology. At Berea, he was actively involved in human rights awareness and traveled extensively around Eastern and Western Europe, where he conducted several independent projects on international human rights, conflict resolution and diplomacy. He then graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2004. While in law school, he was a Senior Staff Member of the Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture and Natural Resources (formerly Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law).
Prior to joining Bailey & Wyant, Suleiman clerked for a Kentucky State Judge. He also spent about three years as a prosecutor and as a private attorney in Kentucky. As a prosecutor, he prosecuted criminal, abuse, neglect and child support cases on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As a private attorney, he was involved in custody, personal injury, civil rights and employment law cases. Recently, Suleiman was associated with a defense firm in Huntington, West Virginia, where he defended major railroad companies in various tort actions. He also defended several large medical device companies in products liability cases and a regional restaurant chain in premises liability cases.
Suleiman is admitted to practice law before the Kentucky Supreme Court, Maryland Court of Appeals (inactive) and West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. He is also admitted to practice law before the United States District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky, United States District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
