In this two-day international workshop organised at Tilburg University, participants were brought together from practice, academia and the student bodies in a transnational conversation about ethos of transnational lawyering. Obiozo Ukpabi presented an intervention to the meeting about the power of writing legal and political narratives, which align at times but not always. Obiozo shared reflections from her PhD research on the lived experiences of transnational litigation against Shell for extraction-related harms in the Niger Delta, for which she conducted interviews with litigants and other stakeholders.