"Solicitors’ Accounts Rules"
Date: Tuesday 21st of February 2012
Time: Registration : 9.45am, Seminar :10am to 4pm
Venue: Birmingham Law Society, Cornwall Buildings, 45-51 Newhall Street, Birmingham B3 3QR
CPD: 5 Hours accredited by the SRA
Fees: Member Fee for Fee Earners: £150 plus VAT, Member Fee Support Staff: £110 plus VAT
Non-Member Fee for Fee Earners: £190 plus VAT, Non-Member Fee Support Staff : £150 plus VAT
Why attend? As you will know, the Solicitors Regulatory Authority’s Accounts Rules have been substantially updated and these updates included new rules, a new regime and new roles. The rules were implemented as from October 6th 2011 and must be in place for March 31st 2012 for all established practices. This course aims to give you the information required to ensure compliance with all that these new rules have brought in.
- Client Account and Client Money
- Use of Client Account - NEW RULES
- Client Monies withheld from Client
Account
- Interest Rules - NEW RULES
- What is a Bill?
- What is an Agreed Fee?
- Operating a client’s own account
- Office Monies and Professional
Disbursements
- Bank Reconciliations - NEW RULES
- Legal Aid (in brief and SAR only)
- Accounting Systems and Records (including central records)
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To book your place, please email glenda@birminghamlawsociety.co.uk
"Private Client Update 2012"
Date: Thursday 23rd of February 2012
Time: Registration at 2.45pm / refreshments,Seminar from 3pm to 5pm
Venue: Mills & Reeve LLP, 78 - 84 Colmore Row, Birmingham, B3 2AB
CPD: 2 hours Accredited by the SRA
Fees: £55 plus VAT for members, £70 plus VAT for non-members
Speakers: Matthew Hansell and John Grundy
WHY ATTEND? This seminar will update busy practitioners on private client law and tax and will cover some of the latest ideas on estate planning, wills, probate, wealth protection and recent case law.
This seminar will cover:
- Wills and Probate Update
- Top Estate Planning Tips
- Wealth Protection
- Case Law Update
- Contentious Trust and Probate Issues
- Taking Will Instructions and Conflicts of Interests
- New Disclosure Rules
- Family & Private Investment Companies
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To book your place, please email glenda@birminghamlawsociety.co.uk
A Birmingham Law Society Debate
Motion: Professional Ethics Is An Outmoded Concept In
A Modern Age.
Date: Tuesday 28th of February 2012
Time: 5:30pm - Registration, 6pm to 7pm - debate including a Q&A session, 7pm to 8pm - drinks and networking
Venue: Gateley LLP, One Eleven Edmund Street, Birmingham B3 2JH
CPD:1 hour accredited by the SRA
Fee: FREE
Speakers: Against the motion is John Wotton, President of our national Law Society and for the motion is Michael Ward, Senior Partner at Gateley LLP Topic: Are law firms no more than businesses competing to sell products as cheaply as possible or are there foundational ethics and values to the legal profession that need to be safeguarded and preserved as the market perhaps drives us in different directions? What do we stand for as a profession? What are our core values that are non negotiable in a changing climate? Join us for a lively debate on these issues with Mike Ward, Managing Partner of Gateleys speaking for the motion and the President of the national Law Society speaking against it. There will be opportunity for questions and comments from the floor and a vote will be taken at the end of the debate.
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To book your place, please email glenda@birminghamlawsociety.co.uk
