The Legal Services Brexit Summit: Practical Implications, Challenges and Opportunities 2019 | City & Financial Global | 12 February 2019 | London, UK, Cavendish Conference Centre 22 Duchess Mews

UK legal services, like many other parts of the economy, will be enormously affected by Brexit. The impact will be both direct and indirect – the former through any changes in market access and future cooperation between the UK and the EU in justice matters and the latter through the implications of Brexit for the users of legal services. It is therefore critically important that all stakeholders in UK legal services - law firms, in-house legal teams, central and local government solicitors, and barristers - keep themselves fully informed about current negotiations and what Brexit will mean under the various possible scenarios.

This event will examine the implications of Brexit for the provision of legal services in different practice areas, as well as its impact on clients and any potential opportunities that may arise.

Key themes in the programme include:
• Market access: prospects for mutual access for legal services
• Strategic, organisational and HR considerations
• Continuation of civil and family justice cooperation
• Impact of Brexit on the users of legal services
• Collaboration in policing, security and criminal justice
• Legal uncertainty and continuity of contracts, including during any transitional period
• Protecting the leading role of England and Wales as the governing law of contract, jurisdiction of choice and preferred centre of arbitration
• Evaluating the new opportunities in legal services that Brexit may herald

2019 Speakers

Lucy Frazer QC MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

Simon Davis
Vice President, Law Society of England and Wales and Litigation Partner

The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP
Chair of the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee

Rt Hon The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, QC
Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Jonathan Djanogly MP
Chairman of All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Bernardine Adkins
Partner and Head of EU, Trade and Competition

Alison Atack
President

Professor Rebecca Bailey-Harris
Barrister, 1 Hare Court Chambers

Eric Benedict
Managing Director, London

Dr Anna Bradshaw
Partner

Mark Brown
Partner, Derivatives & Structured Products Group

Michael Burd
Partner and Chair

Gary Campkin
Managing Director, External Relations & Strategic Issues

Kurt Crommelin
Head of Legal, Europe

Stephen Denyer
Director of Strategic Relationships

Robert Elliott
Chairman Emeritus and Partner, Linklaters LLP

The Rt Hon The Lord Garnier QC
House of Lords

Sarah Garvey
Counsel, Litigation, Allen and Overy

Lord Goldsmith QC
London Co-Managing Partner and Chair of European and Asian Litigation

Simon Goldsworthy
Director and Associate General Counsel

David Greene
Senior Partner, Head of Litigation and Group Action Litigation, Edwin Coe

Chris Hale
Senior Partner and Head of Corporate

Glenn Hall
Partner, Co-Head Government Relations & Public Policy

Paul Hardy
Brexit Director

Jane Hunter
Executive Director and Senior Vice President

Debbie Jukes
General Counsel

Baroness Ludford
Member of EU Justice Sub-Committee and Liberal Democrat Europe spokesman

Hugh Mercer QC
Avocat, Essex Court Chambers

Bob Neill MP
Chair of the Justice Select Committee

Dr Joanna Perkins
Chief Executive

Yasmin Qureshi MP
Shadow Justice Minister

Nick Rollason
Partner and Head of Department, Immigration

Tom Snelling
Partner, Head of the Commercial Disputes Group

Phillip Souta
Head of UK Public Policy

Dan Tench
Partner

Sir David Wootton
Alderman and former Lord Mayor

2019 Sponsors

• British Institute of International and Law Comparative Law
• LLG
• TheCityUK
• Juriosity