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This 8-page document was the CLE Handout for my Akron Law School Miller Becker Center for Professional Responsibility Lecture entitled "International Developments, International Developments, and their Impact on U.S. Legal Ethics and Lawyer Regulation."  It uses the "who-what-when-where-why-and-how" framework that Steve Mark, Tahlia Gordon and I used in our 2012 article entitled Trends and Challenges in Lawyer Regulation: The Impact of Globalization and Technology (and that I later used in ICLR, NOBC, and AALS handouts).  This updated version cites developments through March 2019.  Each of the “who-what-when-where-why-and-how” to regulate categories contains a section describing global developments, followed by one or …

This short document contains several examples of regulatory objectives:

1) the regulatory objectives adopted by the Supreme Courts of Colorado, Illinois, and Washington;

2) the regulatory objectives adopted by the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society in 2014 and updated in 2016;

3) the regulatory objectives that Laurel Terry, Steve Mark, and Tahlia Gordon recommended in this lengthy 2012 article with many examples, which were summarized in this 9-page Terry article and these slides

4) the regulatory objectives the ABA adopted in February 2016; and

5) the regulatory objectives found in Section 1 of the UK's Legal Services Act 2007.

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Globalization and technology have changed the practice of law in dramatic ways.  This is true not only in the United States, but around the world. In this article, author Laurel Terry, along with Australian regulators Steve Mark and Tahlia Gordon, documented some of these global trends in lawyer regulation.  Their article concluded that regulators face issues in common regarding “who” is regulated, “what” or whom is regulated, “when” regulation occurs, “where” regulation occurs, “how” it occurs, and “why” regulation occurs. 

 

This article uses this who-what-when-where-why-and-how framework to discuss events around the world.  These developments include the 2007 UK Legal …