All This Theoretical Pablum

In the current Nigerian public life, there seems to be a general disdain for theoretical stuff as is evident in the placement of theoretical government bodies in the outskirts of the national capital and this attitude has naturally come to law land as is evident from the state the CPD movement is in.
Legal professionals feel 'what on earth is CPD going to achieve for my practice when weighted matters like bills being paid are on ground? It extends further to vital matters of running the law practice, namely, attracting clients.

To attract clients to your practice there is a plan or a strategy and planning or building a strategy involves lots of theory and this is where the previously mentioned disdain comes to bite lawyers in the rear. Because you do not respect theoretical frameworks, you do not understand them or are able to access the value that they offer you. The result is you do not have any practice planning to attract clients or even worse, you are handed some paper and told to make it happen. What!??!
Without the plan you have failed already. Everything else is just going through the motions and soon enough the reality of your failure to plan will catch up with you and your law firm.

This disdain is not a figment of our imagination as players in the local legal services place. For your thinking pleasure: listening to a speaker from Germany at a training session, he observed that the locals refused to study the body of work that the entire world had produced, they refused to access the knowledge and the result was that they could put aircraft together at the factory but the said planes never, ever took flight.

'Nuff said.