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: 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…
ICLR 2018 conference preview: trust and 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…
Ministry of Law, Singapore – Reflections from the International Conference of Legal Regulators 2017
The International Conference of Legal Regulators (“ICLR”) network remains to this day the only platform for legal services regulators to discuss issues and trends relevant to our unique perspective as regulators of lawyers. At the annual ICLR, legal services regulators from participating jurisdictions are able to share knowledge and best practices, learn from each other…
ICLR 2017 Welcome address Mr Gregory Vijayendran of the Law Society of Singapore,
Guest of Honour, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law, Ms Indranee Rajah SC, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Law, Mr Han Kok Juan, Registrar, Supreme Court of Singapore, Mr Vincent Hoong, Presidents of Overseas Law Societies or Bar Associations, Distinguished Guests and Delegates, Ladies & Gentlemen, On behalf of the Law Society, it gives me great pleasure to make…
ICLR 2017 Panel: Overview
Overview The discussion will be led by: 1. Chair – Nasser Al Taweel (NT), Chief Legal Officer, QFC Authority 2. Co-chair – Roscoe Banks (RB), Legal Director, QFC Authority “A good regulatory environment is an essential foundation for high performing nations to make their country a great place to work and live and to protect…
ICLR 2017 Panel: A New Look at Regulators’ Roles and Responsibilities
This session will break conference participants into small discussion groups in which they will consider various issues relating to the evolving roles and responsibilities of new and mature legal regulators. Participants are asked to do preparation for this session by reading the short briefings prepared by the group facilitators relating to the topic they are…
ICLR 2017 – Panel: Effective New Regulatory Responses to Complaints
A synopsis of panel session 5, which takes place on 6 October at ICLR Singapore, kindly provided by the session’s moderator, Susan Saab Fortney – Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Texas A & M University School of Law. Conference materials will be made available to ICLR.net members after the conference. The session examines new regulatory…
ICLR 2017 – Panel: “Disruption in the Legal Profession: Automated/Semi-Automated Online Delivery of Legal Services”
A synopsis of panel session 6, which takes place on 6 October at ICLR Singapore, kindly provided by the session’s moderator, Robert Hawley. Conference materials will be made available to ICLR.net members after the conference. Moderator: Robert A. Hawley – Former Deputy and Acting Executive Director, State Bar of California, USA Speakers: Crispin Passmore – Executive…