Today’s the launch day!

Centre co-directors Alex Batesmith and Dr. Trevor Clark introducing the day discussing the work we do.

Many, many congratulations to the newly minted Dr Dr. Trevor Clark who had his viva yesterday. An important and insightful project on banking and PE lawyers that Richard Moorhead and I supervised, examined by Professor Joan Loughrey and Professor Marc Moore UCL Faculty of Laws - chapeau!

Many congratulations Dr Clark - with Richard Moorhead Steven Vaughan and Prof Marc Moore.

There is still time to register for our (free) launch event on 11 December, ft. LPRG members and some fantastic speakers:

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Law at Leeds Alex Batesmith Dr. Trevor Clark Dr Laurene Soubise Dr Matt Tidmarsh Lydia Bleasdale

We're delighted to announce the public launch of the Legal Professions Research Group (LPRG at Leeds) here Law at Leeds with a full-day workshop 'CHANGING LAW, CHANGING LAWYERS' - join us in person or online, sign-up and details: essl.leeds.ac.uk/legal-professi…

Lots going on Law at Leeds today. LPRG at Leeds is hosting (jointly with Centre for Business Law and Practice) a roundtable with Professor Richard Susskind, which I’m moderating. Later Professor Susskind will deliver the School of Law’s annual Liberty Lecture.

Trevor Clark Dr. Trevor Clark is quoted in this Law Society Gazette article on the complicated world of private equity.

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Read the article 👇

If anyone would like to speak to me about publishing on any legal ethics/legal profession related topic in The Journal of Legal Ethics (I’m the new articles editor) please do get in touch, I’m in Derry! #SLSA2023 Routledge Law

Centre co-director Dr. Trevor Clark has accepted an invitation to join a consultation group to advise the Legal Services Board on a rule of law research project. Congratulations, Trevor!

Legal week is reporting that IOSCO is investigating potential ethical challenges associated with lawyer designation in leveraged finance, an issue I have been researching for some time. I offered some thoughts in the article (paywalled unfortunately). law.com/international-…

Thanks Amsterdam Law School and the Centre for Legal Professions and Access to Justice for a really engaging session with some insightful, challenging, and highly valuable questions and discussion. Looking forward to more collaboration with LPRG at Leeds

❗Join this afternoon at 4pm: lecture by Dr. Trevor Clark of Law at Leeds about corporate lawyers and ethical behavior, integrity and independence. Is corporate lawyers' misconduct influenced by personal characteristics and/or their office? More👇 bit.ly/3iBdyEi

We are live 🎬 Thanks to all of the members who have been involved in the set up of the group, and especially the wonderful Prof. Hilary Sommerlad, Dr. Trevor Clark, and Alex Batesmith. We’ll be profiling all of the members in due course. Watch this space!

Visit our website here: essl.leeds.ac.uk/legal-professi…

🚀Launched: our Legal Professions Research Group! As Prof Hilary Sommerlad explains, we're focusing on the role of lawyers / legal professionals as they face socio-economic and political changes and foundational challenges: essl.leeds.ac.uk/legal-professi…. Do follow us LPRG at Leeds!

I’m excited to be a co-founder of the new Legal Professions Research Group at Leeds University. Please do get in touch if you’d like to know more. In the meantime you can read more about us here essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/artic…

Don't forget to register for next Wednesday's Centre for Business Law and Practice seminar with Dr. Trevor Clark on 'designation' in leveraged finance and how this relates to lawyers' ethics, behaviours and perception of their roles

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All welcome! Sign up👇
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