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Event: The Legal Services Brexit Summit – Practical Implications, Challenges and Opportunities
12 February 2019 | Cavendish Conference Centre, London This highly topical event is being jointly organised by the Law Society of England and Wales and…Event: ABA TechShow 2019
February 27 – March 2, 2019 | Chicago, Illinois The American Bar Association TechShow is where lawyers, legal professionals, and technology all come together. For three…Opinion: Law Is a Profession and an Industry – It Should Be Regulated That Way
Mark Cohen, CEO of the legal business consultancy – Legal Mosaic, weighs in on regulation of law as both a profession and an industry. Cohen argues that…SRA Report: Technology and Legal Services
Artificial intelligence (AI) will free up solicitors from lower-level work to carry out more complex tasks, a new report concludes. We have published a paper …ICLR 2019 Conference Host Announced – Law Society of Scotland
ICLR Conference 2019 Law Society of Scotland | Edinburgh 4-6 September 2019 ICLR is pleased to announce that the host organisation for the ICLR conference in…B.C. Paralegal Association supports LSBC creation of ‘licensed paralegals’
The Law Society is seeking input from the profession regarding a proposal to establish a new class of legal service professional who would hold a…Incoming Bar chair warns of “nightmare scenario” over regulation
The Bar could be “sleep walking into a nightmare scenario” where new rules mean it has no involvement with its regulator, the incoming chairman of…Regulators “must guard against misuse of lawtech”
Artificial intelligence-backed lawtech has the potential to improve access to justice but also carries a danger that automating law will be used negatively, meaning regulators…Asia Pacific lawyers could benefit from no-deal Brexit
If the UK exits the EU without a deal, there would be an end to the current preferential treatment of EU lawyers wishing to practise…Event: Blockchain: Regulation and the Law (5 February)
Blockchain: Regulation and the Law 2019 Sofitel London St James 5 February 2019 Meet the world’s leading legal minds to discuss the future of law…Event: Governance, Risk and Compliance (15 January)
Governance, Risk and Compliance 15th Jan 2019 – 16th Jan 2019 Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa This event is the dedicated forum to create the…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