Dame Hazel Glenn to chair panel discussion on impact of Legal Services Act on legal training
Dame Hazel Genn DBE QC, dean of the UCL Faculty of Law, is to chair a critical debate on the impact of the Legal Services Act 2007 on the training of lawyers.
The debate, titled Do lawyers need to be scholars? will feature a panel including Sir Mark Potter QC, Professor Philippe Sands QC, Professor Stephen Mayson, director of the Legal Services Policy Institute, College of Law, Professor Richard Moorhead, Cardiff Law School, David Bickerton, Clifford Chance regional managing partner for London and the Middle East and Rebecca Huxley-Binns of Nottingham Trent University, the recipient of the Law Teacher of the Year Award 2010.
Tom Laidlaw, head of academic development at LexisNexis which is supporting the debate, says: “It is very important that we make sure we understand how the business of law is changing and what skills are required in the future...This debate is a starting point. We do not think that we will find all the answers but hope that it begins the process of identifying how legal education will develop over the next few years and what law firms and university law schools should do to secure their future.”
The debate takes place on Tuesday 11 October at UCL. It starts at 6pm. Book online at http://legal-education-debate.eventbrite.com.
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