More than 2,000 leading professionals are to gather in London later this month for the Global Law Summit, to mark 800 years since the sealing of the Magna Carta.
The event, on 23-25 February, will feature a roster of high-profile speakers and the opportunity to mix with the great and the good.
Writing in this week’s NLJ, however, columnist Jon Robins points out that the event “has become a focal point for the ire of legal aid campaigners”. The Justice Alliance, which campaigns against legal aid cuts, for example, has called on lawyers to boycott it and is staging a series of alternative events on the same day.
Robins says: “It is striking how effectively the brouhaha over the conference has shone a spotlight on the plight of the cash-strapped end of the profession.
“The ‘Davos of law’, as Dominic Grieve put it, will take place at a time when relations between many in the legal profession and government are at an all-time low.”
