A productised offering for law firms
We build law firms a licensed data protection practice.
Data protection compliance is a regulated, recurring, under-served market in Nigeria. We equip law firms to enter it, not as an internal compliance exercise, but as a licensed revenue line. The DPCO licence is the entry ticket. The practice is what we build around it.
Why the market
Recurring, licensed, and under-supplied.
Annual
Audit and filing obligations renew every compliance cycle. The demand does not expire.
Licensed
Only licensed DPCOs may conduct and file client compliance audits with the Commission.
Under-served
In-scope entities materially outnumber the DPCOs currently servicing them.
The engagement
Four phases. Six weeks.
- 01
Assess
Eligibility and governance · Weeks 1 to 2
Licensing eligibility determination, data mapping, and the firm's own governance framework, which is the evidence the Commission will assess. The application is gated, not assumed.
- 02
Build
Capability building · Week 3
Firm-wide awareness plus a separate practitioner track for the fee-earners who will deliver client mandates.
- 03
License
DPCO licensing · Weeks 4 to 6
Application, filing and Commission liaison, gated on eligibility. One refiling is included where a refusal is remediable.
- 04
Enable
Practice enablement · Week 6
Methodology, precedents, filing workflow, pricing framework and launch plan, so the practice is operational the day the licence issues.
What the firm receives
An operational practice, not a certificate.
- Delivery methodology
- Client report templates
- Precedent library
- Filing workflow
- Pricing framework
- Launch plan
Delivery partnership
Delivered in partnership with Faven LP.
Faven LP serves as engagement lead and licensed DPCO. Legum provides the regulatory framework, practice methodology and cross-jurisdictional data-protection expertise. All activity requiring a DPCO licence is performed by Faven LP under its licensed capacity.
Your firm already has the clients. This adds the licence and the practice around it.
Request the engagement brief and we will send the eligibility checklist, phase plan and indicative timeline.