MCLE London™ Programme 2007

January 2007 – 15th Annual Mandatory/Minimum Continuing Legal Education Course

• COMPETITION LAW – PRIVATE ACTION:
  Stephen Wisking, Partner, Herbert Smith – London
  
  
• CLASH OF TITANS:
  Joseph J. Smallhoover, Partner, Dechert LLP
  
  
• THE CHALLENGE TO BUSINESS CREATED BY CONTROLS OVER MONEY LAUNDERING AND THE FINANCING OF TERRORISM:
  George Brown, Member, Reed Smith – London
  Andrew Clark, PWC – London
  
  
• DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA:
  John Kao, Partner – Jones Day – Hong Kong 
  
  
• ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY:
  Scott Robson, KPMG LLP- London
  Sanjay Bhandari, KPMG LLP – London
  
  
• ELIMINATION OF BIAS IN LEGAL PROFESSION:
  Mark Taylor, Partner, Jones Day – London
  Charles Wynn-Evans, Partner, Dechert LLP
  Paul Nicholls, Barrister, 11 Kings Bench Walk 
  
  
• PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR LAWYERS:
  Alan Boyle,QC -Serle Court
  John Reacroft, – Rigpa 
  
  
• LEGAL ETHICS & PROFESSIONALISM: Ethics in Transnational Practice
  Richard Diebold Lee, International Consultant – San Francisco
  Nancy J. Moore, Professor, Boston University School of Law
  Steven C. Krane, Partner, Proskauer Rose – New York and Paris
  Clifford J. Hendel, Partner, Araoz & Rueda – Abagadas, Madrid
  
  

COMPETITION LAW – PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT: This session provides an overview of what is the hot topic of European competition law at the moment. The session will provide an overview of the current status of private enforcement of competition law in Europe; the European Commission’s green paper; and the issues which are currently being considered by the Courts and by policy makers including class actions and contingency fees, damages measures, court procedures, forum shopping and indirect purchaser actions.

CLASH OF THE TITANS: This pesentation will deal with the clash between US rules under Sarbane-Oxley requiring corporate anonymous whistleblowing hotlines and data protection and labor law rules in EU Member States restricting anonymous whistleblowing and protecting personal data, as well as the differing approaches taken among EU Member States themselves.

DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA: Discussion of legal and ethical challenges to doing business in China;

THE CHALLENGE TO BUSINESS CREATED BY CONTROLS OVER MONEY LAUNDERIING AND TERRORIST FINANCING: The session is a high level review of the controls (many of which have an international reach) that have been put in place to control money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The session will include discussion as to the depth and breadth of the controls and the challenges that business has to face in complying with the many and varied regulations.

ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY: Interactive presentation on e-Disclosure in Practice. Topics covered will include:

• The drivers behind the growth of e-Disclosure;
• The legal background;
• An e-Disclosure management methodology:
• Project Management;
• Planning;
• Digital Evidence Recovery (and recovery of paper records);
• Relevance Filtering;
• Evidence Visualization Applications;
• Hosting;
• Review and production Applications.
• Practical problems. For example:
• Available technologies;
• International data collections;
• EU Data Privacy rules;
• Location of media;
• Imaging or extracting copy data;
• In-source or outsource? When to use external vendors.

ETHICS ISSUES IN TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICE: This 3-hour interactive program is designed to meet the Ethics and Professionalism requirements in numerous states. Topics to be covered include conflicts, imputation, and the choice of disciplinary law, with attention to international arbitration. The speakers will also cover the application of GATS and of different rules of professional conduct on attorneys with a global practice..

PRACTICAL WISDON FOR LAWYERS: This session will provide an introduction to the practice of meditation. The presenters have been running courses for groups of lawyers in Lincoln’s Inn and will present some of the insights which have arisen from this activity, as well as providing an overview of the practice itself. This 1-hour program is designed to meet the Substance Abuse requirements of CA and OH and to provide credit in others states as well.

ELIMINATION OF BIAS IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION: Equal opportunities is no longer just about gender or racial discrimination. Discrimination laws have expanded to encompass disability, age, sexual orientation, religion and belief, thereby increasing the level of regulation on all employers, including those in professional services. This session considers the impact on law firms of the various limbs of discrimination law and looks at the lessons that could be learned from what has happened in other white collar environments. This 1-hour program will meet the Elimination of Bias approval criteria for CA and MN.