Speakers
Alderman Ian Luder, Lord Mayor of the City of London
Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury
David Morley, Senior Partner at Allen & Overy LLP
The issues discussed included:
- How can international law firms remain competitive in a global downturn?
- Has the perceived failure to prevent excesses in the financial sector changed the regulatory discourse forever, or will the phrase 'light-touch' be heard again?
- Is the contribution of the legal services sector to the resilience of the City as a whole properly understood by policy-makers?
- How can the regulatory regime enable or inhibit world-scale law firms' successful operation in many jurisdictions?
- If the most innovative businesses find opportunities in the hardest markets, how will this recession challenge the business model of legal services?
- Is there a risk of increasing protectionist sentiment threatening the openness of international legal markets?
More information on this legal breakfast is available in the flyer.
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A summary is available.
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Two of the speeches from this legal breakfast are also available.
Download Alderman Ian Luder's speech (PDF).
Download David Morley's speech (PDF).