The Latest Compliance Challenges for Law Firms - What Should You Be Doing?

Introduction

Ethical judgement is a key professional obligation on all solicitors and for leaders of law firms. The move away from prescriptive rules in 2019 by the SRA has been followed by the COVID-19 pandemic and evolving work patterns and expectations from clients and solicitors.

Have you and your firm adapted? What should you be doing differently?

This new virtual classroom session will consider the emerging and distinct risks and concerns of the regulators.

The focus will be on what you should be doing about the challenges of lone working and mental health as a law firm and will touch on confidentiality and financial ethics and supervision in a practical sense - how do you supervise when some of the teams are always in a different location?

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Are you able to evidence your team are thinking and acting ethically as is required under the SRA Standards and Regulations 2019?
• Life in the law - The LawCare study - What issues emerged you can use to improve your firm?
• What do the ICO expect of law firms in terms of data security?
• Is cybercrime a risk your team know about?
• What should you do if subjected to a ransomware attack?
• What so the SRA expect of law firms working in an office? At home? Working in a hybrid manner?
• How can you maintain client service standards?
• What are the ethics of confidentiality, supervision, and private life matters? Do you risk your reputation by your responses on social media?
• Some case studies will be explored to add context to the issues

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.