LEGAL CLINIC with Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef Misbau, LLB, BL, LLM, teaches law at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Recently, a junior colleague sent an email to me seeking my opinion on whether he should leave his private legal practice employment with a senior lawyer in Ibadan, Oyo State, for an employment offer in the Oyo State Ministry of Justice – a public service employment – as a Law Officer/State Counsel. A Law Officer or State Counsel is a lawyer who works in the Federal or a State’s Ministry of Justice and enjoys certain privileges that his colleagues of equal ranking […]