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7-KEY STEPS FOR ENFORCEMENT OF REMUNERATION ORDER, 2023 :  END OF QUACKERY By ~ Meti M. Ukpeh, Esq.   Uyo-based Human Rights Lawyer Introduction : With the legal practice in coma; with the legal practice hanging on an ill-fated balance;  with legal practice battling with existential extinction and clogs posed by self-made and self-imposed "lawyers" and very recently, cyber/ICT programs/softwares such as Artificial Intelligence (CHATGPT, CHATBOT, etc.), the fate of who is a lawyer as defined in Sections 2 and 24 of the  Legal Practitioners Act continues to lurk in the murky waters of uncertainty.  Be that as it may, the advent of the Legal Practitioners (Remuneration for Business, Legal Services and Representation) Order, 2023(hereinafter referred to as: "Remuneration Order of 2023 or Order or, 2023 Order) came as a succour,  a solace and a beam of a long awaited light shone on the emaciated soul of the legal practice just to beckon in the era of sanity and sanctity of le