The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019
The Future of Legal Education and Training Conference 2019 took place on 22 May 2019 at Kings Place, London. Find out more and secure your tickets for the 2020 Conference here.
At the 2019 Conference there were sessions on entrepreneurship, cross-disciplinary skills and the coming together of law and computer science, the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE), education and training at the bar, clinical legal education, mental health, wellbeing & resilience, diversity and a keynote address from Professor Richard Susskind OBE.
In attendance were graduate recruitment and learning & development teams from leading UK and global law firms, legal academics from universities across the country and internationally, and lawyers and others with an interest in legal education and training. You can view the full list of organisations that attended here.
Speakers
Professor Richard Susskind
The preeminent voice on how tech is revolutionising law and legal education
Professor Ken Oliphant
Head of the University of Bristol Law School
Jonathan Kewley
Co-head of Clifford Chance's tech practice
Professor Richard Collier
Professor of law and social theory at Newcastle University
Julie Brannan
Director of education and training at the Solicitors Regulation Authority
Jessica Burdon
Innovation consultant at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Dana Denis-Smith
Founder of First 100 Years and legal flexible working platform Obelisk Support
Patrick McCann
Global head of learning at Linklaters
Lloyd Rees
Knowledge lawyer at Freshfields; mental health blogger
Kayleigh Leonie
Junior Lawyers Division committee member
Elizabeth Rimmer
CEO of LawCare
Morette Jackson
Director of business development at The University of Law
Adam Curphey
Head of development (innovation technology) at BPP University Law School
Yasmin Sheikh
Founder of Diverse Matters
Mary Bonsor
Co-founder and CEO of F-LEX
Laura Pinkney
Head of Nottingham Law School’s Legal Advice Centre
Professor Richard Owen
Director of Swansea University’s student-run Law Clinic
Victoria Roper
Senior lecturer at Northumbria University
Deveral Capps
Dean of Leeds Beckett University Law School
Ebony Alleyne
Commercial barrister at Hardwicke
Andrew Lane
Public law barrister at Cornerstone
Jacqueline Cheltenham
National director of The University of Law’s BPTC
James Wakefield
Dean of the Inns of Court College of Advocacy
Mark Keith
BPTC design lead at BPP University Law School
Dani McCormick
Director of solutions at LexisNexis
John Haskell
Senior lecturer in law at the University of Manchester
PJ Kirby QC
Joint head of chambers at Hardwicke
Richard Seabrook
Managing director for Europe at Neota Logic
Zoe Swan
Senior lecturer and undergraduate law course leader at the University of Brighton
Frances Bennett
Burges Salmon's resource manager
Kieran Pender
Legal advisor at the International Bar Association