Call to Bar Ceremony: LawPavilion Set to Unveil New App for New Wigs

LawPavilion Business Solutions Limited, is raising the bar again with another innovative mobile solution, this time, targeted at new wigs.

At a recent media chat, the Managing Director of the company, Ope Olugasa, announced its plan to unveil a new App that works on mobile phones, to ease the work of young Lawyers, particularly new wigs. An extract of the interview is below.

You recently launched your Artificial Intelligence Legal Software, which is the first of its kind in Nigeria, and we hear it is making waves in the legal industry. Can you tell us a little about Artificial Intelligence and its relevance to Legal Practice?

In simple words, Artificial Intelligence, otherwise known as A.I, is simply about making computers or machines to work and react like humans, with the aim of solving problems or performing otherwise difficult tasks. LawPavilion, leveraging its large database of legal resources, recently introduced TIMI, Nigeria's First Artificial Intelligence Legal Assistant. Artificial Intelligence, as its also being experienced in other industries, is going to help Lawyers handle more cases faster, with better accuracy and less stress. It’s sure going to be a game changer and a competitive advantage for many.

Your posts on social media caught our attention, can you tell us about how TIMI will help new wigs?

Basically, the major tasks that new wigs perform in law firms, are legal research, giving legal opinions, litigation, and legal drafting. With TIMI, a new wig will have the LawPavilion Electronic Law Reports, LPELR (online version) to help with the legal research; TIMI Chatbot on Civil Procedures, to assist them in litigation; and TIMI’s Precedent Forms and Agreements Templates, to sufficiently handle legal drafting. Believe me, there hasn’t been anything like this! Imagine having at your finger tips, an app that will guide you, so that you don’t err on Civil Procedure Rules; provide you with vast array of cases to help your legal research, and even arm you with precedent forms and agreements!

Imagine you drafting an originating process, a motion or any other court process, and you get stuck or confused, with TIMI, you can easily chat up TIMI chat-bot; she can give you a step-by-step guide on how to go about

filing or drafting those processes. Also, she provides notes with legal authorities, to support Civil procedure principles. This quick and easy access would definitely aid their research and collation of relevant data to draft processes. Instead of going through the time consuming and hectic method of sifting through voluminous indexes of Law reports, you can easily search through our vast and current database from your mobile phone on the go.

Why is the TIMI-lite geared towards new wigs?

Stories abound of how new wigs have often been embarrassed for failing to comply with the Civil Procedure Rules of Courts. The path of a lawyer freshly called to the Nigerian bar, is usually fraught with challenges. Challenges of being thrown into situations where they are at their wits end; challenges of being required to provide answers to questions they have never considered; the challenges of preparing and filling court processes in our sometime unfriendly court systems; the challenges of facing older wigs who are more experienced and very familiar with the Rules and practices of courts, yet required to handle the matter successfully; the challenges of appearing before a Judge who is bent on ensuring that you learn the ropes, all in one day! All these experiences can be embarrassing, and sometimes, discouraging.

Also, you will agree with me, that one of the major challenges in life, is getting one’s foothold. The new wigs are fresh from the Law School, finding themselves in the legal market that is already saturated with seasoned Lawyers. They will definitely need a launch pad, to help propel them to greatness within the first few years of practice – this is what the TIMI app is offering, and we think it is a unique opportunity for new wigs to own their personal Artificial Intelligence Legal Assistant, as they begin their journey in Legal Practice.

From the foregoing, it is obvious that, the Nigeria’s first AI empowered set, will walk out of the Law School Auditorium on the 27th of November, 2018, with all these AI Tools in their pockets, ready to chart new frontiers in Legal Practice. I think the best gift any parent or guardian can buy for our new wigs at this year’s Call to Bar Ceremony, is the TIMI-Lite Mobile App. It will truly teach them how to fish, and set them up, for life.