Legal ethics in a post pandemic recovery era: Landscape and roadmaps for a pandemic-proof legal profession
Omoyemen Lucia Odigie-Emmanuel
The COVID-19 Pandemic marked a major dispensational progression or regression in the learning and practice of law globally and in several jurisdiction. As the learning and practice of law regresses or progresses, it is needful to articulate how professional ethics has been affected and to adapt legal and professional ethics to ethic into the new glass box. This paper articulates the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on legal education and legal practice and its implication for legal ethics as contained in legal codes in select jurisdiction. Participants will adopt interactive tools to identify strategies for adaptation to changes and how those changes will affect the future of legal education. It aims to promote interaction on how professional ethics can be adapted to accommodate new norm in the legal profession.
Omoyemen Lucia Odigie-Emmanuel. Legal ethics in a post pandemic recovery era: Landscape and roadmaps for a pandemic-proof legal profession. International Journal of Law, Volume 8, Issue 6, 2022, Pages 114-119