As part of the Risk Series, brought to you by Today’s Training, this latest session welcomes Andrea Cohen, Legal Director in the Compli team at Weightmans; a bespoke regulatory consultancy service for the legal sector.
Andrea will provide an overview of the current regulatory landscape and potential risks firms need to be thinking about in the year ahead.
Key Learning Outcomes
- Recent regulatory changes, SRA areas of focus and proposals, including AML challenges, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA), increased fining powers, holding client money, sanctions, cybersecurity risks, AI, implications of Axiom Ince report, wellbeing within firms, continuing competence etc.
- How these issues are impacting day-to-day operations and areas where firms are commonly experiencing challenges
- Best practice for managing risks and ensuring compliance with the new regulatory requirements.
- Areas that are currently and/or continually attract enhanced regulatory scrutiny.
- Regulatory changes that are scheduled for implementation within the next year and, may be on the horizon for 2026.
- The essential building blocks of an effective approach to risk management and/or the common characteristics that firms failing at risk management all exhibit
Please note, the course fee is per person.
The session is recorded and will be available on demand if you are unable to join live. Please book your place and the recording will be circulated 48 hours after the live session to review on-demand.
The Risk Management Series
The Today’s Training Risk Management series is a series of online training events designed to help Managers, Partners and Directors within Legal Services firms understand and manage organisational risk. The series will be composed of at least ten modules to be broadcast live throughout 2025.
Training will be delivered by some of the UK’s leading risk management specialists addressing a range of topics from the impact of leadership and culture on risk through to regulation and disaster recovery amongst other topics. Throughout the series delegates will be able to choose the most relevant sessions for them to attend.
Thank you to our Headline Sponsor PEXA
Date: Tuesday 25th March 2025, 11.15am-12.45pm (1.5 hours)
Who Should Attend
- Managers, Partners and Directors within Legal Services firms
Speaker: Andrea Cohen
Andrea Cohen is a Legal Director in the Compli team, Weightmans’ bespoke regulatory consultancy service for the legal sector, advising on all aspects of regulation, compliance, risk management, including setting up new law firms, mergers and acquisitions, AML obligations and concerns, including carrying out independent AML audits, and disciplinary matters, including SRA investigations and defence work for solicitors before the SDT.
Andrea delivers training on a wide range of areas, most recently on AML, regulatory obligations and hot topics in the world of compliance and regularly speaks at conferences. She has a monthly column in a number of Law Society publications and is a contributor to Practical Law.
Andrea is a founder member and CEO of the PNLA, member of The Law Society Regulatory Processes Committee, Manchester Law Society Regulatory Affairs Committee and COLP, COFA and MLRO Forum, and Law Society Ethics Project Steering Group.
Weightmans is one of the UK’s most respected and award-winning law firms, with over 1,600 people across offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Newcastle.
With 146 specialisms and 453 experts listed in key legal directories, the firm offers a full spectrum of services to built environment enterprises, large corporate institutions, health organisations, insurance companies, public sector bodies, owner managed businesses and individual private clients.