We asked Tracy Kepler Director, ABA Center for Professional Responsibility and recent ICLR Singapore attendee, to share some of her conference highlights with us. What was your favourite session and why? Tracy: Session 3: A New Look at Regulators’ Roles & Responsibilities – being divided into small groups to discuss certain questions and issues with differing…
Quality assurance and standards in legal services – professional competence, advocacy standards and consumer protection
Morning, Wednesday, 29th November 2017, Sixty One Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET This seminar will focus on the priorities for ensuring quality and upholding standards in the legal sector. It is timed to consider next steps for the implementation of the recommendations within the Competition and Markets Authority’s legal services market study – which found that the market was not…
Innovation in the legal services market – regulation, competition and technology
Morning, Wednesday, 24th January 2018, Central London This seminar will consider the priorities for the legal profession and wider stakeholders in responding to upcoming regulatory and technological shifts in the sector. As the SRA takes forward a series of reforms designed to modernise their regulatory approach and widen consumer access to legal advice – by removing restrictions…
CCBE Training conference: Brussels, 14 December 2017
The CCBE Training conference will take place on 14 December 2017 in Brussels at the L42 Business Centre (Rue de la Loi 42, 1040, Brussels). The programme includes panels on the transforming management of the law firm in the digital era, neuroscience and new discoveries on effective learning, innovative training tools such as MOOC, virtual…
Save the Date: NOBC Mid-Year Meeting January 31 – February 4, 2018
The NOBC’s mid-year meeting will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The National Organization of Bar Counsel (NOBC) is a non-profit organization of legal professionals whose members enforce ethics rules that regulate the professional conduct of lawyers who practice law in the United States, Canada and Australia. Read more about the NOBC
Access to Justice: Looking Back, Thinking Ahead
This Article seeks to assess our progress and reassess our goals concerning access to justice. It begins in Part I by summarizing the nature of the challenge. Although there is much we do not know about the scope of the problem, the data available suggest a shameful inadequacy of services for the poor and a…
New Legal Ethics Textbook: Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession — Sixth Edition
In this new Sixth Edition, the longest running professional responsibility book on the market, Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession, has been thoroughly updated and rearranged by its current and two new authors. New and expanded materials in this Edition address cybersecurity, access to justice, judicial ethics and disqualification, the ABA’s Ethics 20/20…
In Critique of RoboLaw: The Model of SmartLaw
This research consists of four parts. The first part presents the analysis of the standard regulation framework and its elements within the theoretical context of ontology of law and institutions. The second and third parts describe the methodology and illustrative research of the standard regulation framework’s failures. Having indicated the reasons of these failures, the fourth part is used…
Professions and Professional Service Firms in a Global Context: Reframing Narratives
Professions are changing rapidly and profoundly as new technologies, organisational forms, and regulations are introduced into the professional world. As a result, professions are creating new narratives to stake their legitimate claims in the world and justify their positions. This paper examines some of these narratives in the contexts of organisation, globalisation and technology among…
Welcome address Singapore 2017: Law Society of Singapore, Mr Gregory Vijayendran
Guest of Honour, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law, Ms Indranee Rajah SC, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Law, Mr Han Kok Juan, Registrar, Supreme Court of Singapore, Mr Vincent Hoong, Presidents of Overseas Law Societies or Bar Associations, Distinguished Guests and Delegates, Ladies & Gentlemen, On behalf of the Law Society, it gives me great pleasure to make…