Solicitors have been urged to make sure that the credentials of people approaching their firm to offer business expansion are genuine. We have received two recent reports of firms branching out into different work areas, but the reality was that new colleagues had infiltrated the firm to defraud clients. The incidents have led to potential…
Getting Conference Ready – Session Previews
In preparation for this year’s ICLR Conference, we are offering attendees and members previews of upcoming conference sessions. Session chairs offer content outlines and call for questions and comments to be integrated into their presentations over the weekend. Access the conference programme and session previews below. Session previews Thursday – 4 October Defining Quality and…
2018 Conference Preview: Impact of International Lawyer Organisations on Regulation
Impact of International Lawyer Organisations on Regulation Synopsis This session explores how international lawyer organisations try to improve lawyer regulation and what the effects are. The presentation is partly based on the findings of a study on three organisations, the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Council of Bars and Law Societies…
2018 Conference Preview: Good Lawyers Making Bad Decisions
Good Lawyers Making Bad Decisions: Using Risk-focused Regulation to Support the Good and Prevent the Bad Synopsis This session explores risk factors and indicators of poor and/or unethical client service, and what the regulator can do to proactively identify and address these factors with the goal of minimizing the risk of future harm, in the…
2018 Conference Preview: The Implications of AI on Legal Regulators and How They Use It
The Implications of AI on Legal Regulators and How They Use It Synopsis This session will consider how regulators can prepare for the growing use of Artificial Intelligence in legal services. It will look at how regulators can balance potential benefits of AI, whilst ensuring that appropriate protections are in place; how regulators themselves can…
2018 Conference Preview: Defining quality and competence in legal services
Defining Quality and Competence in Legal Services Synopsis The session will touch upon the way the quality of the profession is benchmarked, assessed or measured. How do the different jurisdictions do this (if at all)? For example, do we merely go by the number of complaints received? Are there new “disruptive” tools available such as…
2018 Conference Preview: Moving client trust funds away from lawyers to a third party
Moving Client Trust Funds Away from Lawyers to a Third Party Synopsis This session will explore whether the fiduciary duty to safeguard client trust funds should be transferred to a third party. The panel will present various methods of safeguarding client trust funds utilized by jurisdictions including privately owned corporate third parties and centralization of…
2018 Conference Preview: The legal regulator’s role in combating Money Laundering and FATF mutual evaluation
The legal regulator’s role in combating Money Laundering and FATF mutual evaluation Synopsis The fourth round of mutual evaluations by the FATF is ongoing and focus on effective tools to combat money laundering. The speakers share their experience in preparing for and contributing to FATF review and provide valuable information in order to reach a…
2018 Conference Preview: Trust & Transparency
Trust and Transparency – Friday 5 October 2018 Synopsis To present the challenges presented by the expectation of members of the public who use legal services around the trust in the way in which those services are regulated and the transparency allied to that including the challenges presented in the legal services market around transparency…
Legal Innovation is the Rage, But There’s Plenty of Resistance
Mark Cohen writes for Forbes that “The staid legal industry is smitten by “innovation,” even as it lacks a common definition how the term applies to legal delivery and education/training,” but in reality “A cultural war is being waged between lawyers and the broader legal industry.” He acknowledges that, in reality, “There is a rift…