The Australia and New Zealand Legal Ethics Colloquium 4

Australia New Zealand Legal Ethics Colloquium (ANZLEC4)
Challenging Professional Boundaries
When: 28 – 29 November, 2013
Venue: Flinders University Victoria Square
Please contact Claire Treacy at: [email protected] to be added to the mailing list for this conference.

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ILEC V: Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 12-14, 2012

ILEC V: Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 12-14, 2012

Jan. 31, 2012 Deadline for Proposals (with contact information)

The Four Conference Streams:

  • Culture, Ethics & Society
  • Empirical Approaches to Legal Ethics
  • Regulation of the Profession(s)/Ethics and Education
  • Philosophy & Legal Ethics
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Australian and New Zealand Legal Ethics Colloquium

Australian and New Zealand Legal Ethics Colloquium, Dunedin, New Zealand, 9-10 February 2012

Kia ora tatou,

The Legal Issues Centre at the University of Otago Faculty of Law is delighted to invite you to the Australian and New Zealand Legal Ethics Colloquium to be held in Dunedin, New Zealand on 9th and 10thFebruary 2012.

The theme for this colloquium will be: –
Is Adversarialism Dead? New Foundations for Legal Process and Lawyers’ Ethics

Registration and further details of the Colloquium can be found at the following website –
http://www.otago.ac.nz/law/lic/lec/

We are very pleased to announce our keynote speakers:

Professor Brad Wendel, from Cornell University, New York, and Visiting Scholar, University of Otago Legal Issues Centre.

–  Professor Peter Cashman, from Sydney Law School, Sydney.

Registration Process

Participants are asked to complete and return the online registration form via our secure credit card payment gateway no later than 25th November 2011.
https://secure-www.otago.ac.nz/conferences/legalethics/

Colloquium Papers and Abstracts

The Colloquium will provide a forum for participants to share their work and to contribute to rigorous discussion and consideration of issues surrounding the ethical implications of civil justice reform. An invitation is given for participants to present papers on legal, sociological, psychological and philosophical approaches to lawyers’ ethics. If you wish to give a paper please email us a title/abstract [maximum of 300 words] at your earliest convenience and before the closing date of 25th November 2011.

It is proposed that papers presented at the Colloquium, together with other papers to be presented at ILEC 5 in Banff, Alberta 12-14th July 2012, will be considered for inclusion in an edited collection to be published under the auspices of the University of Otago Legal Issues Centre.

We look forward to welcoming you to Dunedin.

Kind regards,

Kim Economides ([email protected]) and Selene Mize ([email protected])

Co-chairs, Colloquium Organising Committee

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Announcement of standards review

England and Wales are about to conduct a major review concerning  education and training requirements for individuals and entities delivering legal services. The review seeks to draw on international experience and is organized by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Board, and the Institute of Legal Executives Professional Standards. These groups are seeking expressions of interest  from “suppliers with the knowledge, experience and capability to provide the range of research expertise necessary to undertake the Legal Services Education and Training Review. Further information regarding the review is available at http:www.sra.org.uk/review2020.

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Law Society calls for greater focus on ethics in training

Law Society calls for greater focus on ethics in training
by Catherine Baksi, Law Society Gazette, Nov. 26, 2010.

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Private Firm: Panel Sees Competence, Supervision, UPL As Top Issues in Legal Services Outsourcing

Private Firm: Panel Sees Competence, Supervision, UPL As Top Issues in Legal Services Outsourcing
 By Martin Whittaker, 26 Law. Man. Prof. Conduct 449

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