Speakers
David Edmonds, chairman, Legal Services Board
Eddie Ryan, managing director, Co-operative Legal Services
David Dickinson, senior partner, Simmons & Simmons
The issues for discussion included:
- What is the role of the regulator in enabling English law and English lawyers to thrive in a global marketplace?
- How can large firms operating in many jurisdictions be regulated without creating unintended harm to their international competitiveness?
- Can the new regulatory framework meet the need of legal businesses and investors for certainty that they can make money without undue restriction?
- Will the providers of commoditised legal services be served by a regime that ranges from the high street to the magic circle?
- Which model of regulation works best for legal services: one-size-fits-all or principles-based regulation as practiced by the FSA?
- Will innovative legal enterprises developing flexible new business models be viewed as embodiments of the spirit of the Legal Services Act by the LSB?
More information on this legal breakfast is available in the flyer.
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A summary is also available.
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