Exit Strategies - How to prepare your firm’s ABS response
Training Provider:
The Law Society
This webinar will focus on the new legal landscape created by the introduction of Alternative Business Structures on 6 October and possible courses of action which firms may wish to take in responses to these changes. Potential responses include exiting the profession, succession, retirement, mergers or other more innovative steps which could be taken in order to survive. Which ever path your firm chooses, it is essential that you consider your regulatory obligations and therefore undertake financial and regulatory due diligence. What this entails and the relevant factors which you should consider will be addressed along with ways to take advantage of the new market.
The webinar will be presented by Tony Guise and John Wotton, President of the Law Society.
Tony is a member of the Solicitors’ Assistance Scheme, a Law Society panel providing specialist expertise to solicitors facing disciplinary or other compliance related issues. He is also one of only six members of the Duty Solicitor Rota at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. His firm acts for law firms, claims management companies, regulators and insurers in dealing with regulatory matters.
Tony lectures extensively on topics associated with the law and the business of law for commercial lecture providers, associations of legal professionals and to law firms and is a founder of The Law Society’s Legal Compliance Bulletin. He writes regularly for New Law Journal, Solicitors Journal, Law Gazette and other publications on all of the above fields of law. Tony is speaking at the Preparing for Change conference, the Law Society's Risk and Compliance Service’s annual conference addressing risk and opportunity in the new regulatory environment which is taking place on 6 October.
As President of the London Solicitors’ Litigation Association (LSLA) from 2002 until 2004 he led several campaigns to improve facilities in the civil justice system.
Tony is a member of Law Society Civil Justice Committee and Chairman of the Commercial Litigation Association (CLAN).
John Wotton has represented the EU Matters constituency on the Law Society’s Council since 2007. He is also an ex officio member of the Legal Affairs and Policy Board, the Management Board, the Membership Board and the Regulatory Affairs Board of the Law Society, and chaired the Society's EU Committee.
John is a consultant to the Antitrust Practice at Allen & Overy. He was a partner from 1984 to 2007, heading the UK Antitrust Group and the Public Procurement Group. He has advised clients on many important cases before the UK competition authorities and the European Commission. He is closely involved in the media sector, with a focus on regulation and judicial review. In utilities, energy and transport, his work has focused mainly on the water, oil, gas and rail industries.
John became a member of the Co-operation and Competition Panel for NHS-funded Services, on its establishment by the Department of Health in 2009. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Competition Law Forum of BIICL.
John has been on the Law Society’s Council since September 2007 and became President at the AGM on 14 July 2011.
This one hour webinar takes the form of a recorded video presentation. You will be able to revisit the recording as many times as you wish and email your questions to a dedicated Exit Strategies mailbox.
If you would like to check that your system can operate the webinar system please ensure that the sound on your computer is on and click the following link:
http://www.brighttalk.com/pages/customer-support/test-your-system
If you have any technical problems please contact your IT department in the first instance.
The webinar will be presented by Tony Guise and John Wotton, President of the Law Society.
Tony is a member of the Solicitors’ Assistance Scheme, a Law Society panel providing specialist expertise to solicitors facing disciplinary or other compliance related issues. He is also one of only six members of the Duty Solicitor Rota at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. His firm acts for law firms, claims management companies, regulators and insurers in dealing with regulatory matters.
Tony lectures extensively on topics associated with the law and the business of law for commercial lecture providers, associations of legal professionals and to law firms and is a founder of The Law Society’s Legal Compliance Bulletin. He writes regularly for New Law Journal, Solicitors Journal, Law Gazette and other publications on all of the above fields of law. Tony is speaking at the Preparing for Change conference, the Law Society's Risk and Compliance Service’s annual conference addressing risk and opportunity in the new regulatory environment which is taking place on 6 October.
As President of the London Solicitors’ Litigation Association (LSLA) from 2002 until 2004 he led several campaigns to improve facilities in the civil justice system.
Tony is a member of Law Society Civil Justice Committee and Chairman of the Commercial Litigation Association (CLAN).
John Wotton has represented the EU Matters constituency on the Law Society’s Council since 2007. He is also an ex officio member of the Legal Affairs and Policy Board, the Management Board, the Membership Board and the Regulatory Affairs Board of the Law Society, and chaired the Society's EU Committee.
John is a consultant to the Antitrust Practice at Allen & Overy. He was a partner from 1984 to 2007, heading the UK Antitrust Group and the Public Procurement Group. He has advised clients on many important cases before the UK competition authorities and the European Commission. He is closely involved in the media sector, with a focus on regulation and judicial review. In utilities, energy and transport, his work has focused mainly on the water, oil, gas and rail industries.
John became a member of the Co-operation and Competition Panel for NHS-funded Services, on its establishment by the Department of Health in 2009. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Competition Law Forum of BIICL.
John has been on the Law Society’s Council since September 2007 and became President at the AGM on 14 July 2011.
This one hour webinar takes the form of a recorded video presentation. You will be able to revisit the recording as many times as you wish and email your questions to a dedicated Exit Strategies mailbox.
If you would like to check that your system can operate the webinar system please ensure that the sound on your computer is on and click the following link:
http://www.brighttalk.com/pages/customer-support/test-your-system
If you have any technical problems please contact your IT department in the first instance.
Prerequisites
The price for this webinar is based upon a single viewer. Discounts are available on bulk bookings. For further details on these please contact Priya Shah at priya.shah@lawsociety.org.uk.
