Legal sector to gather for first major summit on new-look
legal landscape
The Law Society's Law
Conference, the first of what promises to become a landmark annual
event for the profession, will take stock of the new-look legal
services market and focus on how firms and in-house lawyers can
develop their businesses further.
Law Conference, due to take
place in September 2012 at Celtic Manor Resort, Wales, will see
solicitors and those who work with the profession gather to share a
wealth of information and ideas covering pressing issues for the
legal sector and those it serves, including new business models,
opportunities and challenges in globalisation, technological
changes, business strategy for successful law firms, mediation,
commercial property, commercial law and regulation and risk, to
name a few.
Law Society President John
Wotton said: “With change comes the opportunity to develop
new ideas, innovate and share experiences. This conference will
take on board the changes we have seen under the Legal Services
Act, including alternative business structures and outcomes focused
regulation, not to mention changes to civil justice and other areas
of law.
“By September next year
we, as a sector, will have a better feel of the direction this
new-look legal market is taking. Often, great ideas and valuable
experiences go unnoticed and unshared. The aim of the conference is
to pull together all of that information under one roof and discuss
best practice for the way forward and ensure solicitors remain
competitive.”
Opportunities for attendees to
speak on one of the topics covered at the conference remain open.
Find out more about the two-day event and how to applyhere
Ends
Notes to
editors:
The Law Society is the
independent professional body, established for solicitors in 1825,
that works globally to support and represent its members, promoting
the highest professional standards and the rule of law.
The Law Society has 150,000
individual members in England, Wales and around the world and
11,000 member firms operating in domestic and overseas
markets. The Society provides over 50 different products and
services.
Contact: Steve Rudaini, The Law
Society
+44 (0)20 7316
5624