A collection of news articles relevant to the domain of Legal Regulation.
In November 2018, South Africa promulgated its Legal Practice Act of 2014. The Act established to new statutory body that will regulate advocates and attorneys – the Legal Practice Council. According to the justice department, the implementation of the act regulates all legal practitioners, candidate legal practitioners and juristic entities for the first time in the history of…
12 February 2019 | Cavendish Conference Centre, London This highly topical event is being jointly organised by the Law Society of England and Wales and City & Financial Global. It will be held on 12th February 2019 in London. UK legal services, like many other parts of the economy, will be enormously affected by Brexit….
February 27 – March 2, 2019 | Chicago, Illinois The American Bar Association TechShow is where lawyers, legal professionals, and technology all come together. For three days, attendees learn about the most useful and practical technologies available. Our variety of CLE programming offers a great deal of education in just a short amount of time.
Mark Cohen, CEO of the legal business consultancy – Legal Mosaic, weighs in on regulation of law as both a profession and an industry. Cohen argues that “the core tenets of legal practice … have changed little over time, even as new challenges arise,” and therefore lawyers are qualified to sit as regulators. However, he counters that…
Artificial intelligence (AI) will free up solicitors from lower-level work to carry out more complex tasks, a new report concludes. We have published a paper which looks at innovations in technology affecting the legal service sector. The report shows that rapid developments in AI will mostly be focused on back-office functions, addressing out the less…
ICLR Conference 2019 Law Society of Scotland | Edinburgh 4-6 September 2019 ICLR is pleased to announce that the host organisation for the ICLR conference in 2019 will be the Law Society of Scotland and the conference will take place in Edinburgh between 4-6 September 2019. Please hold these dates. We were also grateful to the Kenyan…
The Law Society is seeking input from the profession regarding a proposal to establish a new class of legal service professional who would hold a limited scope licence to practise in the area of family law. The concepts advanced in the scope of practice proposed in Schedule A of the discussion paper are not conclusions….
The Bar could be “sleep walking into a nightmare scenario” where new rules mean it has no involvement with its regulator, the incoming chairman of the Bar Council has warned. Richard Atkins QC also suggested that the Legal Services Board (LSB) did not have the evidence to back up its assertion that its proposed internal…
Artificial intelligence-backed lawtech has the potential to improve access to justice but also carries a danger that automating law will be used negatively, meaning regulators will have to step in, a global innovation charity has warned. Nesta, which is working with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to identify and support transformative AI legal technology, backed…
If the UK exits the EU without a deal, there would be an end to the current preferential treatment of EU lawyers wishing to practise in England & Wales. The Solicitors Regulation Authority says that the UK Government has made clear that this would be the case if the UK moves to WTO rules, ending…
