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A Professional Development Conference From Round Hall

THE LEGAL SERVICES BILL 2011EXPLORING THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTEDBY PART 7 OF THE NEW BILL

WEDNESDAY, 7 DECEMBER 2011 (9 AM TO 1.30 PM)VAVASOUR AREA, THE AVIVA STADIUM, LANSDOWNE RD, DUBLIN 4

David Rowe, Outsource – The Legal Market and an Overview of Part 7 ofThe Legal Services Regulation BillGeorge Bull, Baker Tilly – Reform of The Legal Profession: The Experienceso far in England and WalesBill Holohan, Solicitor – Opportunities for Solicitors: The Need to AdaptMichael Wall, Barrister-at-Law – Multi-Disciplinary Practices/LegalPartnerships: Opportunities for Barristers and other Professions

CERT AvAILABLE FOR CPD PURPOSES – 3.5 HOURS

9 am to 9.30 am Registration

9.30 am to 9.45 am Welcome

Catherine Dolan, Director Round Hall, Thomson Reuters

9.45 am to 10.15 am Introduction

David Rowe, Outsource – Chairperson

• The Irish Legal Market• An Overview of Part 7 of The Legal Services

Regulation Bill

10.15 am to 11 am Reform of The Legal Profession:The Experience so far in Englandand Wales

George Bull, Baker Tilly

• Background Leading to the “Clementi” Review• Legal Services Act 2007• New Regulatory Framework• Alternative Business Structures• The Likely Impact of ABSs on the Market

11 am to 11.30 am Break with refreshments and an opportunityfor networking with colleagues

11.30 am to 12.15 noon Opportunities for Solicitors:The Need to Change/Specialise/Adapt to New Opportunities

Bill Holohan, Solicitor

PROGRAMME

CONFERENCE PROGRAMMWednesday, 7 December 2011 Vavasour Area, The Aviva Stadium

ABOUT ROUND HALL

Round Hall (www.roundhall.ie) is a leading provider of information to the legal andprofessional markets in Ireland. We offer detailed knowledge, understanding, interpretationand commentary across a wide range of subjects in a variety of formats to meet customers’needs – books, journals, periodicals, looseleafs, CD-ROMs, conferences, and online services.We are part of Thomson Reuters.

FOCUSING ON THEOPPORTUNITIES

This Professional Development Conferenceconcentrates on the opportunities that lie inthe Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011.

SPOTLIGHT ONPART 7 OF THE BILL

Part 7 makes provision for the establishmentof legal partnerships and multi-disciplinarypractices in the future. In addition, it makesprovision for direct access to barristers inrelation to non-contentious matters. Section71 defines “legal partnership” as a partnershipformed by two or more legal practitioners,at least one of whom is a barrister, for thepurpose of providing legal services and itdefines “multi-disciplinary practice” as apartnership by two or more persons, at leastone of whom is a legal practitioner, for thepurpose of providing legal services andservices other than legal services. This willbe a new departure in Ireland, but Englandand Wales have already seen the impact oftheir Legal Services Act since 2007.

PINNING DOWNTHE OPPORTUNITIES– LEARNING FROMOTHER JURISDICTIONS

George Bull of Baker Tilly, London willexamine the impact of The Legal Services Act in England and Wales. This has broughtabout many changes and opportunities forboth legal professionals and others in the UK. Following The Clementi Report, TheLegal Services Act was passed in 2007. Ithad two primary aims: first to simplify andimprove regulation of the legal profession and secondly, to create a framework withinwhich legal services may be provided in newways. A lot can be learned by observing thechanging legal market in the UK.

THIS CONFERENCE WILLBE OF INTEREST TO:

• Solicitors• Barristers

And all related professions

• Accountants• Financial Advisors• Architects• Engineers• Planners• Auctioneers

DAvID ROWE is a Chartered Accountant with a primary degree in law and has extensiveexperience in all aspects of the management ofprofessional service firms. He held the positionof Finance Director for leading law firm MathesonOrmsby Prentice for 10 years, before leaving toset up Outsource in 2000. Since establishingOutsource, David has provided ongoing strategic,financial, and management advice to hundredsof law firms in Ireland. He has also specialised inmergers, buying and selling firms and advisingon profit sharing and other partnership issues.

GEORGE BULL heads Baker Tilly’s ProfessionalPractices Group. He is based in London and is primarily involved in providing leading-edgebusiness and taxation advice to the legalprofession. In his work with clients, Georgeinvests time and effort in explaining complexissues simply, producing workable solutions to difficult problems. His success lies in enablingclients to develop strategies, maximise profitabilityand solve problems in a tax-efficient mannerboth in the UK and internationally. George isclosely involved with the reform of the legalprofession in England and Wales and is one ofthe driving forces behind Baker Tilly’s widelyrecognised report ‘Climate Change – Forecastingthe Impact of the Legal Services Act’. Georgeregularly broadcasts, lectures and writes on allaspects of professional practices and taxation.

BILL HOLOHAN, uniquely in Ireland, is qualified as a Solicitor, Notary Public, Arbitrator,Commissioner for Oaths, Trade Mark Agent,European Community Trade Mark Practitioner,and CEDR Accredited Mediator. He is co-authorof several legal texts, including Bankruptcy Law and Practice in Ireland, Leasing – Ireland,International Civil Procedures, Insolvency Law inIreland, International Rescue of Companies. He iscurrently working on a new book on LawyersProfessional Indemnity and Negligence and onanother title on Buying and Selling InsolventBusinesses. He has published a number ofpapers “ADR and Mediation in Ireland, 2010 andbeyond”. He is one of the few Irish solicitors whohas appeared, (without barristers), in the HighCourt and in the Supreme Court when arguingcases on behalf of clients.

MICHAEL WALL is a practising barristerspecialising in planning and environmental law,he also teaches part-time at UCD on masters’degree programmes in planning, urban designand landscape architecture. He is a qualifiedarchitect and planner and was a member of thefull-time board of An Bord Pleanála for almosteight years up to November 2006. In April 2010he was appointed by the Minister for Finance as one of two external members of the NAMAPlanning Advisory Committee. Much ofMichael’s work as a barrister originates byway of direct professional access.

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ME Certificate available for CPD purposes on the day

Approx 3.5 hours in session

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• Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 – Adapt or Die?• The Future: The Commoditisation of Legal Services• Your Future: Boutique or Department Store?• Maximising your Margins and Profit• “Insuring” your Future

12.15 noon to 1 pm Opportunities for Barristers andother Professionals in Proposed“Multi Disciplinary Practices” and“Legal Partnerships”

Michael Wall, Barrister-at-Law

• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats• The Authority and Public Consultation • Professional Codes and Regulation Issues• Responsibilities and Duties• Embracing Change

1 pm to 1.30 pm Panel Discussion

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