MCLE London™ Programme 2021

After Brexit — Overview of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), and issues going forward, following the UK’s departure on the 31st December 2020

Consideration of some of the most relevant issues for private and commercial practice, banking and financial services etc., following the final departure of the UK from the EU on the 31st December 2020;

John Bell LLB, LLM, Barrister (EW). Currently working at LexisNexus on Corporate Crime matters, John has, since qualifying at the English Bar, worked with the Serious Fraud Office, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Regulatory and Procedural Law, as a Schuman Trainee with the European Parliament. He has been engaged more recently in closely following the course of development of the 1200+page EC TCA which came into effect on December 31St 2020, and in particular with Part 3 relating to Criminal Justice.

Cybersecurity in EU and UK — A review of key current issues for practice in this IT global Warzone

Richard Parlour MA (Cantab), Solicitor (EW). Richard has a specialised international financial lawfirm practice (FMLI), and is an author of numerous books and articles on financial markets matters.He has spent time on secondment to the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, and has worked in Brussels closely with the European Institutions. Memberships: Law Society of England & Wales, International Bar Association, Securities & Investment Institute, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Society of Advanced Legal Studies (Fellow), Royal Air Force Club.

Negotiating Today in the Virtual World

The principles of successful legal negotiation and the application of them when face to face in person meetings are not possible and digital media have to be used.

Paul Fisher – Associate Fellow, Said Business School, Oxford University; Programme Director of The Oxford Programme on Negotiation.

Legal and and Underlying Constitutional aspects of the current US Presidential Election Imbroglio

This is an ongoing and dangerous situation in the USA. What underpinning factors in the Constituion can be effective, and what ambiuguities in it can be misused. What workable ways forward may be fiound based on the rule of law.

Karl J. Sandstrom – Attorney (DC), and Senior Counsel at Perkins Coie. Practice areas: Political law; Politcal Parties, Campaigns and Committees

Mindfulness in a Whirlwind World.

What it is and how it can help with constant physical and/or mental stress together with pressures of work and life in a profession that is intensely demanding and cerebral

Julia R Lofts, Accredited Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher and Supervisor; MBACP Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist

Elimination of Bias

Focusing on equal rights ideals and impinging issues which adversely affect minorities, sometimes with very serious consequences, and long-term practical rather than rhetorical developments to help alleviate this.

(Group Session) Leader: Rory Khilkoff-Boulding, Attorney at Law (NY, CA),Solicitor (EW)

Legal writing and communicating with Americans in the Age of the Smartphone

Steven D Stark – Graduate of Yale Law School and former Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, now a writer, teacher, lawyer, artist, and consultant, is the author of five books, one e-book, and two poetry chapbooks. He has been a commentator for CNN, National Public Radio, and the Voice of America, where his role was to try to interpret American culture to the rest of the world. He devotes a substantial amount of his work to public interest, human rights, and pro bono organizations all over the world. No stranger to the UK, he has also written a biography of The Beatles.

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW —

COLLECT OR FORFEIT – ETHICS, FEES AND DIVIDING FEES

Ellen Peck — Attorney (FL), Director Legal Division Florida Bar, supervising lawyer regulation and professionalism efforts – former Chair of ABA’s professionalism Committee (2003-2006); awardwinning expert in judicial education, ethics and professionalism

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW

CALIFORNIA ETHICS

Diane L Karpman — Attorney (CA), of Karpman & Associates, Los Angeles, a practice specializing in attorney-related issues