Course description
A significant part of an in-house lawyer’s role is to ensure that you can demonstrate compliance with regulatory and professional duties to the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Since the SRA’s wide-ranging powers allow it to supervise and, if necessary, take enforcement action against you, it is crucial that you are up to speed with the regulator’s top priorities.
Tracey Calvert presents this live and interactive broadcast which will examine the hot topics in regulation and compliance that in-house lawyers need to be aware of. It will provide a review of the SRA Standards and Regulations, how they apply to you, legal risk management expectations and much more.
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Introduction
Notwithstanding your type of employment, all in-house lawyers must ensure that they can demonstrate compliance with regulatory and professional duties to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
The SRA has wide-ranging powers which allow it to supervise and, if necessary, take enforcement action against you so it is essential that you understand the regulator’s top priorities.
Delivered by regulation specialist Tracey Calvert, this virtual classroom seminar will examine the hot topics that in-house lawyers need to be aware of.
What You Will Learn
This live and interactive session will cover the following:
- What the SRA expects of you
- A review of the SRA Standards and Regulations and how they apply to you
- Hot topics with the SRA Principles - the application of the honesty principle and the significance of the trust and confidence principle to your style of practice
- Hot topics with the SRA Code of Conduct - authority to act issues, equality expectations, undertakings
- Legal risk management expectations - why the SRA gets upset about data breaches and by equality offences
- Tips to demonstrate compliance in practice and manage your response to these hot topics
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