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The Institute is
established as part of The College of Law's charitable activities
(go to http://www.college-of-law.co.uk/about-the-college/legal-services-policy-institute.html).
The Institute's role
includes:
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seeking
a more efficient and competitive marketplace for legal
services, which properly balances the interests of clients,
providers, and the public; |
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contributing
to the process of policy formation and influencing the
important policy issues in the legal services sector and,
in doing so, promoting the public interest rather than
the interests or concerns of any particular party; |
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alerting
government, regulators, professional bodies, practitioners
and other providers, and the wider public, to the implications
of these issues; |
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encouraging
and enabling better-informed planning in legal services
by law firms and other providers, government, regulators
and representative bodies (including responding to consultation
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The following papers and presentations
are available for download:
Global
Law Firms: a strategy looking for a market?
[click here
for pdf]
Paper prepared for the symposium on global law firms at Georgetown
University, Washington DC
(April 2008)
Business
Models in Legal Services: the meaning of ‘business
model’
[click here
for pdf]
A discussion paper looking at the elements of a frequently
used but rarely commonly understood concept
(April 2008)
After
Clementi:
the impending legal landscape
[click here
for pdf]
A paper reviewing the likely effects of the Clementi review
and its implementation through the Legal Services Bill
(December 2006)
Legal
Services Reforms:
catalyst, cataclysm or catastrophe?
[click here
for pdf]
Inaugural address as Director of the Institute
(21 March 2007)
Alternative
Business Structures:
something for everyone?
[click here
for pdf]
A paper exploring possible approaches to the use of new business
structures
(September 2007)
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