A collection of news articles relevant to the domain of Legal Regulation.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association, A. B Mahmoud, SAN, has said the Body of Benchers was ill-equipped to regulate the affairs of the legal profession. The body, which comprises of lawyers and judges is put in place to regulate the education of aspirants to the bar and consequently admits lawyers who…
