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Selected Works

Laurel S. Terry

2013

ABS

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Trends In Global Lawyer Regulation, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2012

Trends In Global Lawyer Regulation, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

These 2013 slides summarize and categorize trends in global discussions of lawyer regulation. These slides use the "who-what-when-where-why-and-how" structure set forth in two law review articles in order to discuss changes in lawyer regulation that are happening around the world or that are the subject of discussion. The articles on which these slides are based are: Laurel S. Terry, Steve Mark, Tahlia Gordon, Trends and Challenges in Lawyer Regulation: The Impact of Globalization and Technology, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 2661 (2012), https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/6/, and Laurel S. Terry, Trends in Global and Canadian Lawyer Regulation, 76 Saskatchewan L. Rev. 145 (2013), …


Transnational Legal Practice (International)[2010-2012], Laurel S. Terry Dec 2012

Transnational Legal Practice (International)[2010-2012], Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

This article covers three years of Transnational Legal Practice developments outside of the US. (It is the companion piece to 47 Int'l Law. 499 (2013) which discusses US developments.) This article discusses the approval of an Alternative Business Structure licensing system by the UK Solicitors Regulation Authority and its subsequent issuance of ABS licenses. The second section reviews the emergence of the “Troika” as a new regulatory influence in Europe, citing as an example the joint ABA-CCBE letter to the IMF. (The Troika refers to the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission.) The third section …


Trends In Global And Canadian Lawyer Regulation, Laurel S. Terry Dec 2012

Trends In Global And Canadian Lawyer Regulation, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

Globalization and technology have changed the practice of law in dramatic ways. This is true not only in the U.S. and Canada, but around the world. Global regulatory trends have begun to emerge as lawyer regulators have had to respond to new developments. In 2012, Australian regulators Steve Mark and Tahlia Gordon and the author, who is a U.S. academic, documented some of these global trends in lawyer regulation. See Laurel S. Terry, Steve Mark, & Tahlia Gordon, Trends and Challenges in Lawyer Regulation: The Impact of Globalization and Technology, 80 Fordham L. Rev. 2661 (2012), https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/95/. Their article …