Title: Legal Wales Conference, Cardiff
Date: 6 October 2023
Speaker: Richard Orpin, Director, Regulation & Policy
Description: In his speech, Richard addressed the audience on the topic of delivering excellence in legal services in Wales.
Speeches and presentations
Title: Westminster Legal Policy Forum event – next steps for equality, diversity and inclusion in the legal profession
Date: 20 October 2023
Speaker: Richard Orpin, Director, Regulation & Policy
Description: In his speech, Richard spoke about the role of regulation in promoting EDI in the legal sector – regulatory requirements and priorities, initiatives and next steps, sector responsibilities, and future areas of focus.
Title: Westminster Legal Policy Forum seminar: The next steps for legal ethics (PDF)
Date: 28 March 2023
Speaker: Matthew Hill, Chief Executive
Description: In his speech, Matthew addressed the topic of growing public confidence and trust in the legal profession.
Title: SLC Annual Conference 2022, Derby
Date: 2 November 2022
Speaker: Matthew Hill, Chief Executive
Description: In his presentation, Matthew provided an update on the progress of delivering the Reshaping Legal Services agenda and also participated in a panel discussion.
Title: International Conference of Legal Regulators 2022
Date: 28 October 2022
Speaker: Chris Nichols, Director, Policy and Regulation
Description: In his speech, Chris discussed the scope of regulation.
Title: London Law Expo
Date: 24 May 2022
Speaker: Matthew Hill, Chief Executive
Description: Matthew Hill, Chief Executive of the LSB, recently spoke at the London Law Expo, discussing technology, diversity and inclusion and the rule of law. Please see Matthew’s speech.
Title: Westminster Legal Policy Forum – keynote seminar – Consumer-friendly legal services and LegalTech
Date: 30 March 2022
Speaker: Chris Nichols, Director, Policy and Regulation
Description: In his speech and presentation, Chris discussed the role that technology could play in helping more people and small businesses access legal services.
Title: The Law Society’s Risk and Compliance Annual Conference 2022
Date: 25 March 2022
Speaker: Chris Nichols, Director, Policy and Regulation
Description: In his speech, Chris discussed the importance of developing and cultivating a sense of professionalism across the legal profession. He also looked at what lies ahead in regulatory terms and talked about embracing change – and looking for opportunities to do things differently and to do things better.
Title: OECD online workshop: Regulatory barriers to competition in professional services (PDF)
Date: 19 November 2021
Speaker: Steve Brooker, Head, Policy Development and Research
Description: Steve Brooker presented at the OECD online workshop.
Title: Danish Consumer and Competition Authority’s conference on competition in the legal profession.
Date: 4 November 2021
Description: Our Chair, Dr Helen Phillips, was invited to speak about reforms to legal services regulation in England and Wales in a session about competition in the legal profession. This followed the publication of a market study by the Danish Competition Council on competition in the legal profession in January 2021. The event took place in Copenhagen, with Helen joining via Zoom.
In her speech, Helen reflected on the impact of the reforms and explained the LSB’s independent role in overseeing regulation.
Title: Ongoing Competence Discussion event
Date: 13 October 2o21
Description: The LSB hosted an online discussion event to inform our work on ongoing competence. We were joined by 60+ stakeholders from across the UK legal services sector, as well as regulators from other sectors and in different time zones.
Title: British Legal Technology Forum 2021
Date: 12 October 2021
Speaker: Chris Nichols, Director, Regulation and Policy
Description: Chris Nichols joined as a panellist on the Future Of LegalTech: Regulation & Technology session.
Title: Society of Will Writers Conference 2021
Date: 11 October 2021
Speaker: Matthew Hill, Chief Executive
Description: Matthew Hill presented on the Reshaping legal services sector-wide strategy.
Title: ICLR 2021 – The Role of Regulators in Promoting Fairer Legal Services: Responding to Issues of Vulnerability and Legal Capability
Date: 30 September 2021
Speaker: Steve Brooker, Head, Policy Development and Research
Description: Steve Brooker joined as a panellist on the vulnerability and legal capability session.
Title: ICLR 2021 – Can We Still Do This? Exploring Lifelong Competency in Legal Practice
Date: 29 September 2021
Speaker: Margie McCrone, Regulatory Police Manager
Description: Margie McCrone joined as a panellist on the ongoing competence throughout legal professionals’ careers session.
Title: LSB West Midlands engagement event
Date: 20 September 2021
Speaker: Aisling O’Connell, Regulatory Policy manager
Description: Aisling O’Connell presented on technology and innovation in legal services.
Title: Legal Services Board (LSB) non-lay Board member recruitment event
Date: 17 August 2021
Speakers: Dr Helen Phillips, Chair of the LSB; Flora Page, non-lay LSB Board member; Holly Perry, Director, Enabling Services at the LSB.
Description: As part of the Ministry of Justice’s campaign to recruit a new non-lay Board member of the LSB, the LSB hosted a webinar for potential candidates to hear more about the work we do and what is sought for this role. The event covered the role of the LSB, the recruitment process, requirements for applications, advice for CVs and practical information on the process.
You can watch the event in the video below. We have also published a list of questions and answers raised during the session.
Title: Westminster Legal Policy Forum (WLPF) event: Next steps for legal education and training in England and Wales (PDF)
Date: 29 June 2021
Speaker/author: Chris Nichols, Director, Regulation and Policy
Description: Chris Nichols joined the conference as a keynote speaker.
Title: LSB Wales engagement event
Date: 07 June 2021
Speaker/author: Steve Brooker, Head, Policy Development and Research
Description: Steve Brooker presented on the LSB Strategy and legal services in Wales.
Title: LegalEdCon2021
Date: 19-20 May 2021
Speaker/author: Chris Nichols, Director, Regulation and Policy
Description: Chris Nichols joined as a panellist in the ‘How law courses are proving their value’ session.
Title: Public Chair’s Forum (PCF), Strategic Impact of Covid for Arm’s Length Bodies
Date: 11 May 2021
Speaker/author: Dr Helen Phillips, Chair
Description: Dr Helen Phillips joined the panel speakers in discussing what long term impacts Covid-19 might have for legal services.
Title: Consumer-focused regulation – Professional Standards Forums, Australia
Date: April 2021
Speaker/author: Steve Brooker, Head, Policy, Development and Research
Description: Steve prepared a video presentation about our consumer-focused strategy for the legal services sector in England and Wales
Title: OECD Global Roundtable on Access to Justice
Date: 30-31 March 2021
Speaker/author: Tom May, Research manager
Description: Tom May presented on the individual legal needs survey and the Coronavirus impact dashboard.
Title: LawTech UK Sandbox Pilot Showcase evemt
Date: 25 March 2021
Speaker/author: Aisling O’Connell, Regulatory Policy manager
Description: Aisling O’Connell took part in the ‘Navigating Regulation’ panel, along with colleagues from the SRA and Law Society of Scotland.
Title: Compliance Expert Panel: Speaking to the regulators Live
Date: 16 March 2021
Speaker/author: Chris Nichols, Director, Regulation and Policy
Description: Chris Nichols joined the panel at The Access Group’s event alongside Legal Services Consumer Panel, Solicitors Regulation Authority, Legal Ombudsman.
Title: The quest for regulatory equality: disproportionality in the regulation of Global Majority lawyers – where are we now and what comes next?’
Date: 03 March 2020
Speaker/author: Angela Latta, Head, Performance and Oversight
Description: Angela Latta, spoke at a Leigh Day event on diversity, entitled ‘The quest for regulatory equality: disproportionality in the regulation of Global Majority lawyers – where are we now and what comes next?’
Title: Policy Profession Conference Week event
Date: 11 February 2021
Speaker/author: Steve Brooker, Head, Policy Development and Research
Description: Ministry of Justice’s Policy Profession Conference Week event.
Title: Covid-19 and the Provision of Legal Services
Date: 09 February 2021
Speaker/author: Chris Nichols, Director, Regulation and Policy
Description: Chris Nichols attended and spoke at this event hosted by Industry and Parliament Trust.
Title: State of Legal Services 2020 webinar
Date: 14. January 2021
Speaker/author: Steve Brooker, Head, Policy, Development and Research
Description: Steve Brooker, presenting the State of Legal Services 2020 report at the webinar event.
Title: The quest for regulatory equality: the disproportionate impact of regulation on lawyers from BAME backgrounds
Date: 11 November 2020
Speaker/author: Angela Latta, Head, Performance and Oversight
Description: Angela Lata spoke on the panel at Leigh Day’s Regulatory and Disciplinary law team’s event on the quest for regulatory equality.
Title: Ongoing competence in the legal services sector (England and Wales)
Date: 29 October 2020
Speaker/author: Margie McCrone, Regulatory Policy Manager
Description: Margie McCrone presenting at the virtual ICLR conference about ongoing competence.
Title: Online regional event: Liverpool and the North West
Date: 19 October 2020
Speaker/author: Matthew Hill, CEO
Description: Matthew Hill presented on the impacts of Covid-19 on the legal services sector.
Title: LSB Senior Stakeholder Summit
Date: 24 September 2020
Speaker/Author: Steve Brooker, Head, Policy, Development and Research
Description: Steve Brooker, presenting at the Senior Stakeholder Summit.
Title: Are we out of step? The legal services sector approach to ongoing competence
Date: 29 July 2020
Speaker/author: Margie McCrone, Regulatory Policy Manager
Description: Margie McCrone, presentation to the City of London Law Society summer workshop.
Title: Legal Cheek Education Conference: The Trainee of the 2020s
Date: 14 May 2020
Speaker/author: Matthew Hill, LSB Chief Executive
Description: Matthew Hill, panel discussion at the virtual Legal Cheek Education Conference.
Title: Reshaping services: the role of diversity in regulation
Date: 22 April 2020
Speaker/author: Matthew Hill, LSB Chief Executive
Description: Matthew Hill, presented at the Judicial Diversity Forum on the role of diversity in legal services regulation.
Title: Diversity in the Legal Services Sector
Date: 12 March 2020
Speaker/author: Dr Helen Phillips, LSB Chair
Description: Dr Helen Phillips, addressed the Judicial Appointments Commission and presented on Diversity in the sector.
Title: Regulation in the legal services market – structures, roles and independence (PDF)
Date: 25 February 2020
Speaker/author: Matthew Hill, LSB Chief Executive
Description: Matthew Hill’s presentation to the Westminster Legal Policy Forum: Regulation in the legal services market – structures, roles and independence.
Title: Can Public Legal Education (PLE) really increase access to justice?
Date: 24 February 2020
Speaker/author: Tom May, Research Manager
Description: On the first day of Justice Week, LSB hosted an event on Public Legal Education (PLE). Our Research Manager, Tom May, presented on research insights into PLE and findings from the Individual Legal Needs Survey. Then there was a panel discussion with Kate Briscoe, CEO of Legal Beagles, Enver Soloman, CEO of Just for Kids Law and Michael Olatokun, Head of Public and Youth Engagement, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.
Title: CILEx Regulation Entity Event
Date: 8 February 2020
Speaker/author: Dr Helen Phillips, LSB Chair
Description: Dr Helen Phillips, addressed the CILEx Regulation Entity Event and presented on the relationship between LSB and CILEx Regulation and issues of mutual interest.
Date: 28 November 2019
Speaker/author: Matthew Hill, LSB Chief Executive
Description: Matthew Hill, presented at the Legal Futures Innovation Conference on legal services that everyone can access and trust.
Date: 13 June 2019
Speaker/author: Jemima Coleman, LSB Board member
Description: Jemima Coleman’s speech to the Westminster Legal Policy Forum: “Diversity in Legal Services”.
Title: ‘Legal services that everyone can access and trust’
Date: 1 April 2019
Speaker: Neil Buckley, LSB Chief Executive
Description: Neil Buckley, presented to the Cardiff and District Law Societies.
Title: ‘Regulating through uncertain times’
Date: 18 March 2019
Speaker/author: Neil Buckley, LSB Chief Executive
Description: Neil Buckley’s speech to the Natwest Symphony Legal Spring Conference: Powering Through Uncertainty.
Title: ‘Next steps for regulating technology and innovation in Legal Services‘
Date: 27 February 2019
Speaker/author: Steve Brooker, LSB Head of Policy Development and Research
Description: Steve Brooker’s keynote speech to the Westminster Legal Policy Forum: ‘Technology and the Legal Market’.
Title: ‘The legal needs of Small Businesses in England & Wales‘
Date: 6 July 2018
Speaker/author: Rob Cross, LSB Research Manager
Description: LSB Research Manager presentation to the OECD – OCDE Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice in Riga, Latvia.