BACKGROUND, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF LEADERSHIP AND LEGAL CAREER OPPORTUNITIES CONFERENCE

In a bid to live up to its fundamental objective of building up excellent lawyers, the Law Students’ Society of the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University has deemed it fit to organize a program aimed and targeted at equipping her members in entrepreneurship, career, leadership and legal opportunities.

The aforementioned becomes more appreciated when we consider the realities of our time - the 21st century. We need no soothsayer to inform us that a lawyer in the world of today may not be able to survive solely on advocacy and what he learns in the four walls of the classroom. Indeed, a lawyer that must thrive in these times must be equipped, not just academically but in career, leadership opportunities and other extra-legal skills.

Consequent upon the above, the Law Students’ Society believes it is apt to organize a Leadership and Legal Opportunities Conference, designed to expose her members and non-students alike to the opportunities that abound in the aspects of Leadership and other novel areas of Life.

The aims of the Leadership and Legal Career Opportunities Conference include the following:

1. To equip budding lawyers with the requisite legal and advocacy skills, proficient knowledge and right values for excellence in the contemporary global practices.

2. To equip law students who will be relevant and can favourably compete in the 21st century establishments.

3. To adequately prepare law students who can contribute to societal development in diverse ways.

4. To expose budding lawyers to other areas of law practice that are less explored.

5. To imbue participants with the exposure of the new vistas in law and career opportunities therein.

6. To imbue budding lawyers with proficient advocacy and career skills for major contribution in the mainstream world of global development.

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