Adil Ismayilov

Adil Alviz oglu Ismayilov (; 5 July 1957 – 3 December 2020) was an Azerbaijani lawyer, jurist, investigator, and a public figure.

A member of the Azerbaijani Bar Association, Ismayilov participated in the most well-known trials in Azerbaijan during the 1990s and 2000s.

Life Adil Alviz oglu Ismayilov was born on 5 July 1957, in Goychay, the administrative center of Goychay District in the Azerbaijani SSR, which at the time was part of the Soviet Union. He studied at the secondary school No. 172 named after Suleyman Sani Akhundov in Baku. From 1973 to 1978, he studied at the Faculty of Law of the Azerbaijani State University. In 1995, he founded the law firm "ADISAD".

As a lawyer, Ismayilov had participated in a number of well-known lawsuits. He was active during the 1993 Azerbaijani coup d'état, becoming a lawyer for Isa Gambar, the ex-acting President of Azerbaijan who was arrested the same year, and former minister of internal affairs, Isgandar Hamidov. Ismayilov also wrote a book titled Legal Absurdities in 2008. In the book, he comments on the gaps and some contradictions in the Criminal Code of Azerbaijan. In 2005, he defended General Zakir Nasirov during the Operation Black Belt, in 2006, Ramil Safarov, an Azerbaijani serviceman arrested in Hungary for killing an Armenian lieutenant, and in 2015, General Subahir Gurbanov, during the MNS case. In his last case, he was the lawyer of the former Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Eldar Hasanov.

Death Ismayilov died from complications related to COVID-19 on 3 December 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Azerbaijan.