BREAKFAST BRIEFING SERIES

COLP & COFA

BREAKFAST BRIEFING | LONDON

BREAKFAST BRIEFING | LONDON

Identifying and reporting material breaches and patterns of non-compliance

Influencing skills for COLPs and COFAs

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 08:30 - 10:30

Be part of Board decisions before they happen; get taken seriously by your fee earners.
Update your powers of persuasion during this intensive morning session designed for the multi-faceted COLP and COFA roles. Having your nomination for COLP or COFA approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is one thing but having your name on the official list is no guarantee that you will be able to get what you need to get done. With personal liability at stake, you cant afford for your Board to inform you of decisions that impact compliance after the fact, you need to be there at the point of contemplation to potentially steer the firm away from choices that could land it in hot water with the regulator. You also need to be able to make a strong case for reporting breaches, when you think that is the right thing to do according to the rules, in situations where your Board and partners might be suggesting that corrective action on its own will be sufficient. But how do you get your Board, partners and fee earners to listen to you? How do you sell your personal brand and the rather unpopular brand of regulatory compliance? How can you present a persuasive case to the SRA? Following its successful and very well attended series of COLP & COFA conferences, Managing Partner brings you this critical breakfast briefing in which Nick Davies, Barrister; renowned expert in selling and influencing skills; award winning conference speaker and author of the book How To Be Great At The Stuff You Hate shows you how to gain credibility with senior management, equipping you to start your day back at the office with an even more persuasive persona. At this briefing we will also be joined by Ottilie Sefton, COLP at Holman Fenwick Willan who will share with you best practice techniques from the law firm perspective.

Wednesday 5 June 2013, 08:30 - 10:30

A briefing designed for mid-tier law firms from the City and the South East region, facilitated by Rachel Khiara and Chris Bull
With the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) guidance on Outcomes Focused Regulation (OFR) stating that the nature of systems and controls will vary according to the size of your firm or form of practice; its complexity, the activity that it conducts and your client base, it makes sense for Managing Partner to prepare executive briefings at which COLPs & COFAs representing firms of similar size can come together to discuss the challenging and so far unresolved question of what constitutes a material breach relevant to firm size. Even if you are sure of your criteria for determining a material breach, are you sure exactly when you should report it and when you should alert your Board and partners to its existence? Hear from Karen Mitchell of Speechly Bircham on dealing with breaches from the perspective of a law firm with midtier resources. Beyond breaches that are deemed material in and of themselves, the SRA also expects you to monitor, record and report patterns of non-compliance. Hear from Jane Jarman of Nottingham Law School who will share her extensive work with the Risk Education Management Programme for the Law Society of Hong Kong. Following its successful and popular series of COLP & COFA conferences, Managing Partner has prepared a timely breakfast briefing designed to give COLPs & COFAs in mid-tier firms the opportunity to get an update on the latest thinking on COLP & COFA reporting and to work through these issues together. It has been deliberately scheduled to take place a few weeks before insurance renewal applications open so you can make sure to report regulatory information in the correct manner and avoid any unexpected delays.

195+VAT each or 345+VAT for both

+44 (0)20 7549 2535 | events@ark-group.com | www.ark-group.com
Please note registration will begin at 08:00 for an 08:30 start. The briefing will close promptly at 10:30 but there will be an opportunity to stay for coffee should you wish to do so. Attendance at each of these events qualifies for 2 hours of SRA CPD (at intermediate/advanced level). To claim the hours, quote provider code: EEW/ARCL.

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