PROFESSOR TERRY PRESENTS ON LEGAL SERVICES INNOVATION REGULATION AT THE LAW SOCIETY OF ONTARIO’S “SPECIAL LECTURES” TWO-DAY CONFERENCE
November 2019 — Professor Laurel S. Terry addressed the topic of Regulatory Developments Related to Innovation, Technology, and the Practice of Law during the Law Society of Ontario’s two-day conference entitled Special Lectures 2019: Innovation, Technology, and the Practice of Law. The conference was held in Toronto on November 21-22, 2019 and included an impressive gathering of speakers.
The Law Society of Ontario, which is the regulatory body for Canada’s most populous province, is the host of the biennial Special Lectures program. Professor Terry’s fellow panelists included the Chair of the Law Society of Ontario’s Technology Task Force and a lawyer who is Senior Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice Canada, who discussed the recently-issued Directive on Automated Decisionmaking. Professor Terry spoke about U.S. lawyer regulatory developments that addressed innovation in legal services. In addition to her slides, Professor Terry prepared a lengthy paper for this conference, which will be included in the 2019 Special Lectures publication.
Professor Terry actively follows both U.S. and global lawyer regulation developments. She co-wrote with two Australian regulators a law review article that identified lawyer regulatory developments around the world and that explained the usefulness of using a who-what-when-where-why-and-how methodology to characterize lawyer regulation developments. This co-authored article provided the basis for Professor Terry’s later article that focused on trends in global and Canadian lawyer regulation, as well as CLE materials she prepared for her 2019 Akron Law School Miller Becker Center for Professional Responsibility Lecture.
Professor Laurel Terry, who holds the H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Chair in Law, is a three-time Fulbright recipient who writes and teaches about the impact of globalization on the legal profession, especially with respect to regulatory issues. Her scholarship has identified emerging issues for the legal profession and urged stakeholder engagement, new initiatives, and regulatory reform. In addition to speaking at academic and professional conferences, she has been invited to speak about her scholarship to has been invited to speak about her scholarship to organizations that include the Conference of Chief Justices, the National Conference of Bar Examiners, the National Organization of Bar Counsel, the National Conference of Bar Presidents, the CCBE, which represents EU’s legal profession and legal regulators, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, the International Institute of Law Association Chief Executives, the International Bar Association, and the International Conference of Legal Regulators. Her scholarship is available at https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/ and her presentation slides are available at https://tinyurl.com/laurelterryslides.