The SRA expects all solicitors to meet their continuing competence obligations. This session gained further insight and practical tips on what you as a solicitor need to do to stay up to date and compliant with the relevant SRA rules
All solicitors must maintain their competence to carry out their role. Attend this online session to gain a greater understanding of what you need to do to become or remain compliant with SRA continuing competence rules. This session will also explore how your firm can build continuing competence into your wider learning and development strategy, and it will highlight more about the penalties in place for those who are not compliant in this area.
Learning Objectives:
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Understand what you need to do to remain compliant with SRA continuing competence rules
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Gain insights into ways that you can become compliant
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Discover how you can build continuing competence into your firms wider learning and development strategy
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Learn more about the penalties in place for those who are not compliant in this area
Speakers:
Richard Williams, Policy Manager, SRA
Richard is a policy manager at the SRA. Since he joined in 2012, he has implemented key education and regulatory reform policies. He is also involved in the SRA’s work on all aspects of maintaining continuing competence, SQE and qualifying work experience. His early career spanned a range of policy roles in central government and the third sector.
Chair: Patrick McCann, Director of Learning, Linklaters
Patrick McCann is the firm’s Director of Learning and responsible for the articulation and implementation of the firm’s learning and development strategy, managing a team of over 30. He has been involved in adult education since 1995 and specialises in the design and delivery of business skills development programmes for colleagues and clients of the firm.
Fiona Antony, solicitor; training director at LLG; Member of Law Society’s Education and Training Committee, nplaw
Fiona is a solicitor and the Professional and Practice Development Manager at nplaw, a shared local authority legal service hosted by Norfolk County Council. She sits on the Law Society’s Education and Training Committee and is Director of Training at Lawyers in Local Government. She is also a member of both the Solicitor and Barrister Apprenticeship Trailblazer Groups. Fiona is nplaw’s Training Principal, with responsibility for the practice’s ten trainee solicitors and apprentices.
