ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN NIGERIA: IMPERATIVES FOR LEGAL ENTREPRENEURIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SKILLS

The legal profession is like guild. It is a distinct and noble one, and as such a restriction on what a lawyer is allowed to venture into. It is therefore imperative to highlight the opportunities available for lawyers to consider in a changing time of globalization and technological innovation as it relates to our economic social and political changes in Nigeria. Thus, the need to explore entrepreneurship in the legal profession notwithstanding the ethical obligations. This article seeks to explore legal entrepreneurship which implies that lawyers should apply entrepreneurial mind set and skill  within the uncertainty of the legal profession thereby creating a leverage on the lawyer and their clients. A doctrinal method of research is adopted finding that legal entrepreneurship will create a dynamic that will create a continuous change in the structure of legal rights and duties, therefore, the need for a guideline. Again, the work noted that there isn’t adequate legal entrepreneurship training in the Nigerian Law Schools and also discussed the issue of the prohibition of advertisement by legal practitioner. The paper recommends the guidelines that will ensure legal entrepreneurship in the country, introduction of Nigerian Law School entrepreneurship project in the Law Schools, and removing the restriction of advertisement by legal practitioners.