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ICLR 2020 Annual Conference: Day 5
Day 5: 30 October – – – Day 5 will include our final consumer-focused breakout for EMEA and the APAC entitled: In Search of Solutions, not…ICLR 2020 Annual Conference: Day 3
Day 3: 28 October – – – Day 3 will kick off with the final diversity and wellbeing breakout, aimed at EMEA and APAC, entitled:…ICLR Annual Conference: Day 2: 27 October 2020
Day 2: 27 October – – – The final pandemic track breakout entitled: Education, Testing & Admissions: What Covid 19 has Taught Us, has been…ICLR 2020 Annual Conference: Day 1
Day 1: 26 October – – – The conference will begin with a welcome session and keynote address, which have both been scheduled to encourage…Conference: TechLaw.Fest 2020
28 September – 2 October 2020 TechLaw.Fest returns in 2020. Join us in this fully virtual event featuring over 20 hours of content from 20 countries across 5 days on all things law…Accountancy Body to Hand Designated Legal Regulatory Powers to CILEx
The Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA) in England and Wales is to withdraw from legal services regulation in a UK first. The legal activities that…IBA Survey on Disciplinary Responses to Inappropriate Personal Conduct
The International Bar Association (IBA) Legal Policy & Research Unit (LPRU) and Bar Issues Commission (BIC) Regulation Committee are currently undertaking a global survey of…Utah to be First US State to Trial Non-Lawyer Ownership
Utah has become the first state in the US to allow non-lawyer ownership of legal services providers. This month the State Supreme Court unanimously voted…Philippines authorises video notarization in quarantined areas
The Philippines Supreme Court has released updated rules that allow video conferencing software to be used for the notarization of documents in areas under quarantine…The future of legal services in England and Wales – reviewing regulation, consumer protection and responding to innovation
Tuesday, 15th September 2020 Online Leader of the review Professor Stephen Mayson, Centre for Ethics & Law, UCL is a keynote speaker at this conference. The…Conference: AI and the Rule of Law – Regulation and Ethics
Friday 20th November 2020 IALS, London A call for papers is announced for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference, this year supported by Bloomsbury’s Communications Law journal.…State Bar publishes first annual report card on the diversity of California’s legal profession
‘Report card’ The State Bar’s “First Annual Report Card on the Diversity of California’s Legal Profession,” (PDF) provides baseline data on the diversity and workplace…ABA profile of the legal profession: diversity and well-being
While the number of lawyers nationally has grown faster than the U.S. population, this growth hasn’t been spread evenly across races and ethnicities, according to…The Bar Standards Board Race Equality Taskforce publishes case studies
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) Race Equality Taskforce has published two case studies to promote racial diversity and inclusion at the Bar. This marks the…Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner: lawyer well-being project
In 2019 the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner interviewed people working across all parts of the legal profession to gain a deeper understanding of…Law Society of Scotland COVID-19 impact surveys and COP26 working group
COVID-19 impact In April/May 2020 the Law Society of Scotland undertook a telephone survey with private practice firms to understand the financial impact the Covid-19…