News stories, articles and events that may be of interest to our community of legal regulators.
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…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…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’…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…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…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…