Mr Olawale Fapohuna, Ekiti State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Olawale Fapohunda, has called on lawyers in the state to embrace technology in order to keep abreast of modern knowledge.

He said lawyers should, for instance, avail themselves the benefit of an online legal library developed by a Nigerian firm, LawPavilion.

Fapohunda spoke in Ado Ekiti, while declaring open a series of lectures by the Ekiti State Ministry of Justice Academy.

The attorney general said Governor Kayode Fayemi was committed to ensuring that all legal practitioners in the Ekiti State were trained to enable them to compete favourably with their counterparts across the world.

“Legal practitioners in Ekiti are to avail themselves of various opportunities that abound in the electronic library which are cheaper, handy, faster and easy to transfer from one place to the other,” Fapohunda said.

Also the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary, Ekiti State Ministry of Justice, Mr Lawrence Ojo, equally urged his colleagues to embrace the LawPavilion software for professional development.

In his lecture entitled, “Current Developments in Case Law Reporting and Redefining the Criminal Justice System,” the Managing Director of LawPavilion, Mr Ope Olugasa, said, “The manual library system will soon give way to a new system where one would have his library on his palm and table.”

Olugasa listed various benefits derivable from the LawPavilion e-library software to include “direct access to past and present judgments of the appellate courts with just a click on mobile phones, tablets and computers”.