Worldwide Law Training Calendar

The Sunshine Act Reporting for Clinical Trials

san Francisco, California, USA

Description:
Payments made to clinical investigators participating in clinical trials need to be disclosed to CMS under the Sunshine Act provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, generally referred to as Obamacare.
Under the new rules, principal investigators and co-investigators are subject to unprecedented disclosure requirements to the Center for Medicare and M...

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Re-designing the law firm equity and reward structures

London, United Kingdom

If another firm was offering you a better rewards structure, would you leave?

If it is a critical factor in your decision making process, are you sure your partners and top talent aren't considering this as well?

If law firms are to gain competitive advantage over their rivals they must ensure that they are consistently delivering what their clients require and doing this better than...

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Alan Hodgart: Choosing the right pricing model for your firm

London, United Kingdom

Can you afford to lose your clients to a more competitive pricing strategy?

In an increasingly difficult and complex market it has never been more important for your firm to choose the correct pricing strategy. Whether your aim is to maximise profits or to differentiate yourself in an increasingly crowded and competitive market, one of the world's leading advisers to professional service bu...

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Introduction to anti-money laundering compliance

London, United Kingdom

Are your staff fully equipped to deal with the practicalities of anti-money laundering compliance?

Are you certain?

As the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, the increasing demands and expectations of our regulators means it has never been more important to ensure that your staff are suitably trained and have the knowledge to protect themselves and your firm from the risk of m...

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How to retain your firm's key people

London, United Kingdom

Poaching of the most senior City lawyers is forecast as the country's biggest law firms try to bolster their bottom lines" - Financial Times

Research has indicated that 64% of directors are more likely to hire senior teams from rivals. The study also states that clients are willing to follow their favourite lawyer to new firms with many general counsels having stopped using a law firm becau...

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Measure and report what matters: Effective presentation of financial information to lawyers

London, United Kingdom

Many law firms are still not providing their partners and fee earners with adequate financial reports to allow them to improve their performance. This results in essential reports being ignored and important actions are not being taken, as shown by this comment from a fee earner in one firm:

"I don't have a clue about the financial reports I receive."

High quality financial measureme...

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Cyber crime security: How to safeguard your organisation

London, United Kingdom

A report released in February 2013 by the National Audit Office revealed that the UK IT skills shortage means that Britain could have trouble defending itself from cyber-attacks over the next 20 years*.

Ranked as number four in the top thirteen 'cyber-mature' countries, the UK Government has also placed cyber threats (to infrastructure) within the top-ten risks faced by the UK and with over...

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Understanding the SRA Accounts Rule

London, United Kingdom

To achieve compliance, having an understanding of the SRA Accounts rules is CRUCIAL.

Understanding the SRA Accounts Rules and the compliance requirements is essential if you and your firm are to enjoy a good relationship with the SRA.

The role of the Compliance Officer for Finance and Administration creates a bridge between your firm and the regulator and makes understanding the Acco...

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Medical Foods: Practical Tips to Meet FDA Requirements for Claims and Quality

san Francisco, California, USA

Description:
Medical foods play an important role in the management of patients with special dietary restrictions and needs. The designation of medical food by FDA implies special handling, labeling, distribution and manufacturing requirements.
Manufacturers are usually worried about meeting all of FDA’s complex requirements for such products. This seminar will discuss the regulatory process...

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The role of the law firm partner: Strategic career mapping in a changing legal market

London, United Kingdom

Changes to the default retirement age (DRA) and an increased emphasis on performance management means that firms can no longer sit back and believe that Partnership is indeed a plateau on to retirement; especially within the context of ABSs.

The tendency is to view career mapping as an all or nothing approach where the next step for a Partner is to be outside the firm. This masterclass aims...

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ICC Training International Contracts, Paris 3-6 June 2013

Paris, France

Negotiating and drafting a contract of quality, which will allow the parties to preserve their relationship in the long term, are skills and techniques that need to be learned, as does managing the “post-contract” and dealing with different kinds of conflict resolution. This training will focus, through the study of a mock case, on these issues and the main problems that arise in international con...

ICC International Chamber of Commerce

Client relationship management for law firms

London, United Kingdom

Choosing the right clients is crucial to your success and there are many aspects to consider not simply who are the biggest and best. Long-term, lucrative client relationships stem from compatibility and the role of the relationship partner within your firm is pivotal in client selection and management.

It is critical that you are compatible with your clients in order for strong relationshi...

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Undertaking a risk and compliance audit of your firm

London, United Kingdom

Law firms have witnessed ever-increasing regulation over the last decade, and firms now have to do much more than just pay lip service to risk management and corporate governance.

The masterclass recognises that there is a lot of talk about risk management for legal practice, but there is often a lack of practical awareness of what the real risks are and what should be done about them.

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COLP & COFA: Identifying and reporting material breaches and patterns of non-compliance

London, United Kingdom

With the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) guidance on Outcomes Focused Regulation (OFR) stating that the nature of systems and controls will vary according to the size of your firm or form of practice; its complexity, the activity that it conducts and your client base, it makes sense for Managing Partner to prepare executive briefings at which COLPs & COFAs representing firms of similar size ...

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Infographics: Creative and effective delivery of information

London, United Kingdom

Is your message drowning in a sea of information?

Information overload cannot be avoided in this day and age. However, clear communication is crucial if you want to get your message across and make it memorable.

Creatively delivering the information is essential to this process and an infographic enables the recipient to understand the message with a greater efficiency.

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International Commercial Arbitration

Paris, France

This training provides participants with a first-hand experience and understanding of the ICC Arbitration procedure through practical and interactive sessions. Participants will study the arbitration proceedings through the simulation of a mockcase.

ICC International Chamber of Commerce

Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches

Maynooth, Ireland

Programme Title: Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches
Dates: Monday 10th - Friday 14th June 2012
Venue: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland

This annual IHRN training programme aims at enhancing the skills of justice sector personnel, consultants, managers etc, in applying Human Rights Based Approaches to Justice Sector Reform. The programme is de...

International Human Rights Network

Client care: How to tackle complaints and claims for law firms

London, United Kingdom

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. - John Lydgate

But you can develop a strategy to effectively deal with unhappy clients in a way to ensure they don’t take their business to your competitors.

Treating clients fairly should be a core value of all authorised SRA f...

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E-billing for law firms

London, United Kingdom

This highly successful masterclass, which has received some of the best feedback scores from our delegates, will get you fully updated on e-billing standards in the UK and show you how other firms are successfully implementing e-billing. It will ensure that you are aware of how to operate a maximum efficiency e-billing initiative in your firm.

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Developing an information retention and disposition programme for law firms

London, United Kingdom

Discovery and review costs have increased between 50% and 70% and this is in part due to the difficulties of searching through petabytes of data that may not need to be retained. Organisations must ensure that they have the policies and processes in place to retain or dispose of the information they need in a compliant and relatively risk free environment that supports their business needs.

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CE Marking: MDD, AIMDD and IVDD

san Francisco, California, USA

Description:
This webinar is intended to help you get familiar with the European Union (EU) Directives governing medical devices including in vitro diagnostic and active implantable medical devices.
This webinar is further intended to provide guidance on the regulatory requirements set out in the applicable Directives, which help assure that medical devices are safe and effective for their i...

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COLP & COFA: Influencing skills for COLPs and COFAs

London, United Kingdom

Update your powers of persuasion during this intensive morning session designed for the multi-faceted COLP and COFA roles.

Having your nomination for COLP or COFA approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is one thing but having your name on the official list is no guarantee that you will be able to get what you need to get done.

With personal liability at stake, you can’...

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Tackling the ABS application process

London, United Kingdom

Currently tackling the ABS application process?

"Despite the perception that a changing legal landscape is afoot, only 80 out of 454 firms have completed their alternative business structure (ABS) application and have had licenses granted."

Bringing non-lawyer interests into your firm is a credible way to diversify and develop your legal business. In order to provide reserved legal s...

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Blogs and wikis for law firms

London, United Kingdom

Are you extracting the maximum value from your blogs and wikis?

In the current legal market, it is essential for you to maximise the benefit of social tools available to your firm. Effectively sharing your information and knowledge both internally and with clients plays a crucial factor towards your firm's success.

Blogs and Wikis are more than just a "nice to have" option.

In...

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Lateral hires: Implementing a successful integration process

London, United Kingdom

Has your firm developed a strategy to ensure lateral hires don't fail?

A recent study indicates that a third of the 2,763 partner hires made between 2005 and 2012 were no longer with the same firm. The study reveals that areas such as corporate and finance are the toughest to hire partners successfully, while 80% of real estate partners hired in 2005 have since moved on*.

In the incr...

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