Olabisi Ajao is a business and contracts attorney with an emphasis on the education industry. She focuses her practice on advising K-12 schools, colleges, and universities on education policy and operational and transactional issues. Olabisi's experience assisting clients includes working with vendors to handle contract negotiations, procurements, and program and policy implementation.
Clients benefit from Olabisi's background as the chief legal officer and chief financial officer for a management consulting organization. She began her career as a certified public accountant and has broad fiscal, operational, and business knowledge. Even as a practicing attorney, she has maintained her license as a CPA with the North Carolina State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners.
Olabisi's legal practice has also included advising on legal needs related to corporate leasing and health care. In addition, she was recently selected to take part in the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance's Emerging Business Leaders program, an intensive seven-month leadership program focused on connecting high-achieving individuals from various industries and top corporations throughout Mecklenburg County.
Olabisi received her law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law, where she served as senior editor for the North Carolina Central Law Review, as a law school ambassador on the Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, and as a summer law clerk for the Honorable Loretta C. Biggs in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.