TIPS ON THE FEATURES OF THE 5G VIRTUAL LAW OFFICE HYBRID INTEGRATED

The 5G Virtual Law Office Hybrid Integrated Website is a novel law office developed to help lawyers in Nigeria and other parts of the world to provide hybrid legal services for their clients in a convenient, cost effective and ethical way. It is the first hybrid model of law office developed during the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa and if it is safe to say, the first social media business platform integrated hybrid law office model in the world. It is an all encompassing law office as it has embedded research and legal resources links as well as global news that makes it a complete hybrid law firm. It puts the end-user in an office environment any where he or she finds himself or herself as a hybrid legal practitioner. All the aesthetic features of a conventional office environment are incorporated in the office. Hence it has been described by many hybrid practice enthusiast as an amazing model of law office.

The product was birthed during the global Covid-19 lockdown by the innovative practitioner research work of an African practitioner research professor, legal innovator and tech-lawyer evangelist, Prof. Teddy Idiabeta, (Esq.,) FMA-AGI who is the Principal Consultant of Prof. Teddy Idiabeta Law Consult, a registered dispute resolution, legal practitioner research and general practice law firm.

Thousands of Nigerian lawyers now use the WhatsApp, Facebook and My Google Business models to provide legal services for their clients in a convenient, cost effective and ethical way. This was made possible after the developer had trained over 1000 Nigerian lawyers in the months of April and May 2020 during the global Covid-19 pandemic and later in the month of December when some other Nigerian lawyers were trained on how to use the model of office for online dispute resolution, ODR. At the moment, over 300 Nigerian lawyers are undergoing a training on how to use model in their pursuit to become hybrid legal practitioners who prepared to take the legal profession to a new level.

Prior to the introduction of the novel model of law practice, most Nigerian lawyers never knew it was possible to use WhatsApp video call for virtual witness deposition on oath let alone its use as a hybrid law firm with embedded and connected office reception, principal's office, board room/conference room, virtual library, law directory, client portal, data protection portal, etc. But the training the end-users of 5G Virtual Law Office+ WhatsApp version underwent in 2020 proved it was not only possible but also, convenient, cost effective lawfully and ethically possible.

As it is no longer disputed that hybrid legal practice is the future of the legal profession, taken into account the global Covid-19 disruptive realities and how technology came to its rescue in the legal practice world, the 5G Virtual Law Office Hybrid Integrated Website developer strongly believes that the model of law office will remain one of the best things to have happened to the legal profession in recent times, not just in Nigeria but all over world.

It is estimated that over 5000 Nigerian lawyers now use the model of law office. The founder has projected that by 2030 over 30 thousand Nigerian lawyers and lawyers from different parts of the world will have signed up for its use.

The legalization of the model started with the quest by the developer to promote virtual filing, virtual service of originating processes, virtual witness deposition on oath and virtual hearing during the global Covid-19 lockdown in which regulations were later made by different stakeholders in the judiciary across the world as way of keeping the courts open for litigants and prospective litigants.

The developer first tested the live legal efficacy of the WhatsApp Business version of the law office when he used it for virtual witness deposition on oath and virtual service of originating processes vide the WhatsApp contacts of the adverse party in a highly contentious matter for which he was representing a South Africa based Nigerian client as the global Covid-19 pandemic made it impossible for him to come to Nigeria to do his case.

The 5G Virtual Law Office Hybrid Integrated model has so many novel features to promote hybrid legal practice within and outside Nigeria.

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