This article discusses the implications of three decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in its 2016-2017 term that touch directly upon the “law of lawyers”, that is, privilege issues and legal professional regulation. Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada and Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. University of Calgary reaffirm the significant protection our courts accord to both solicitor-client and litigation privilege, such that a legislative provision will…
Blockchain: Regulation and the Law 2019 Sofitel London St James 5 February 2019 Meet the world’s leading legal minds to discuss the future of law and regulation for distributed ledger technologies across business, finance and industry, at this inaugural event designed for senior in-house lawyers and senior executives. Register Today
Governance, Risk and Compliance 15th Jan 2019 – 16th Jan 2019 Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa This event is the dedicated forum to create the roadmap for excellence in risk and compliance across all levels for competitive advantage. Develop a risk framework, set the risk appetite and deliver business growth. Learn how to embed this…
LegalEx 27-28 March 2019 | ExCel London The UK’s leading event for business growth, professional development and cyber security in the legal sector. Event Website
New Law, New Regulations, New Practitioners: Legal and Ethical Obligations When Advising Taxpayers in an Uncertain Legal Environment 19 December 2019 Hosted by: American Bar Association This panel will discuss practical and technical issues that arise after a major change in law such as the 2017 Tax Act. We will explore the impact of proposed,…
National Organization of Bar Counsel Mid-Year Meeting January 23 – 26 2019 Las Vegas, NV Register Here
The U.S. Supreme Court sent back a case challenging a nearly 30-year-old precedent allowing mandatory bar membership. The case took aim at the county’s first mandatory bar, North Dakota’s, which required membership in the state’s bar association as a condition to practice law as early as 1921, according to the American Bar Association. Although the state…
Brussels, Belgium Host: Academy of European Law 6 December 2018 – 7 December 2018 Objective In 2017 the UK started to negotiate on leaving the EU. It is not yet clear when the negotiations will be finished but it is clear that the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019 at the latest,…
Over the last few years, some consensus has emerged on the fact that the standardisation models adopted in both the European Union and in the United States have increasingly delegated the private pillar to create and maintain the technical and technological rules. Nevertheless, the two systems still diverge on a number of significant respects, thus…
A current burning debate in legal practice today appears to be the man-made fight for superiority between the skills of legal practitioner and the legal artificial intelligence skill provided by information and communication technology (ICT) loosely tagged as “legal technology.” The essence of the debate is that legal technology can replace legal practitioners’ role. The…
