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…
Event: LegalEx (27-28 March 2019)
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
Webinar: New Law, New Regulations, New Practitioners: Legal and Ethical Obligations When Advising Taxpayers in an Uncertain Legal Environment
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,…
Event: National Organization of Bar Counsel Mid Year Meeting (23 Jan)
National Organization of Bar Counsel Mid-Year Meeting January 23 – 26 2019 Las Vegas, NV Register Here
High Court Sends Back Bar Membership Row
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…
Event: Three Months to Brexit – Where Do We Stand? (6 December)
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,…
Indiana professional rules limit lawyers’ speech about judges
The Indiana Lawyer has released an article tackling one of the legal sector’s most contentious issues – Rule of Professional Conduct 8.2(a), which governs lawyers’ speech about judges. Lawyers, it seems, don’t want to address the topic for fear of being perceived as speaking critically of the judiciary, while judges seemingly don’t want to discuss situations…
A wave of violence against lawyers is crippling the Philippines’ justice system
The slaying earlier this month of a prominent human rights lawyer in the Philippines who worked on behalf of poor suspects accused of drug-related crimes has sparked a renewed outcry over President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. The lawyer, Benjamin Ramos, was gunned down by two unidentified assailants on Nov. 6—the 34th lawyer to be…
Fit for the Future – Report of the Independent Review of Legal Services Regulation in Scotland
The report makes 40 recommendations to Scottish Ministers on reforming the way in which legal services are regulated and complaints handled. It found that the current statutory framework has led to a complex system which is not accessible to either professionals or the consumer. The review considered the current approach to regulation and complaints handling…
ICLR Conference 2019 – Cast Your Vote
If you attended the 2018 conference in the Hague we hope you enjoyed it. If not, we hope you will be able to join us next year. In order to determine where the conference should be held, we would like to invite you to complete the attached survey. In order to help you make your…