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Navigating SRA conduct requirements:
essential training to minimise the risk of non-compliance
Equip your partners with the knowhow to fulfil their regulated role and understand their accountability when it comes to the human stuff.
Background
SRA updates impacting your firm.
The legal world is evolving, and so are the regulations that govern it. The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has introduced critical updates to the SRA Standards & Regulations, with a specific focus on "Maintaining Trust and Acting Fairly." These updates introduce a new standard impacting law firms and individual solicitors, RELs, and RFLs. The rule emphasises treating colleagues fairly and respectfully while addressing any behaviour that falls short of this standard.
Requirements of your firm and its people
Your partners have an express obligation to challenge behaviour - how prepared are they?
These updates hold profound implications. Partners in law firms now bear an express duty to challenge behaviour as leaders within the organisation. The new rules go over and above requirements to prevent bullying and harassment, creating a positive, proactive duty to ensure fairness and respect.
Why choose us?
Our offer
Expert 'lunch and learn'
training
Prepare your firm's partners to confidently navigate the latest SRA updates with our expert 'Lunch and Learn' training session. Our 60-minute, interactive and discussion-based workshop enables your partners to understand:
- what has changed: the SRA requirements, the risks of getting it wrong and the benefits of getting it right
- their pro-active duties and personal accountability as partners
- their role in ensuring individuals and the firm comply with the rules relating to fairness and respect
- the Rule 1.5 requirement to challenge conduct, what it requires of them in practice, and how to do it effectively.
Take advantage of our ready-to-go training package; ensuring swift implementation and enabling your partners to promptly address the SRA's update.
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