Legal training release notes – what’s new for May 2024?

Welcome to this new service detailing Legal Learning content release notes for firms using our specialist courses and resources.

May has been a busy month for webinar activity with the launch of five webinars covering key topics such as AML, A.I. and more.

There is also a fully upgraded course launching as part of this release on the topic of Sexual Harassment, as well as updates to two document templates.

GRC FOR LAW FIRMS CATALOGUE

Anti-Money Laundering quarterly update

Anti-Money Laundering has long been a key focus area for the legal industry. Alongside or eLearning courses, each quarter Access Legal hosts an AML Update webinar hosted by Brian Rogers and AML expert Mariam Dobosz aiming to cover the latest developments in this space and, for those attending the live broadcast, field questions attendees posed.

During this latest edition, Brian and Mariam cover:

• Clarifications from the SRA.
• Insights into Source of Funds/Wealth checks.
• Fines and lessons learned from recent SRA cases.
• Regulatory updates since January 24.
• Importance of supervision.
• Non-regulated work.
• Q&A.

Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Sector

With the use of Artificial Intelligence becoming ever more popular, Brian Rogers offers a primer into what A.I. is, some of the emerging user cases in the legal sector and the principles of utilising A.I. within the industry.

A.I. is a topic that likely to only grow moving forward, and the team intend to provide further updates as the picture evolves and the legal industry responds in turn.

This webinar covers the key issues around Artificial Intelligence (AI), including:

• Types of AI.
• Categories of AI.
• Components of AI.
• Guiding principles in the use of AI.

Breach Management – A practical Guide

During late 2022 and early 2023 Access Legal launched a 3-part series covering Breach Management.

The series aimed to work through various real-world user cases and scenarios where firms had encountered regulatory breach and offer practical insights into where things had gone well, where there were improvement opportunities and how these could be prevented in future.

The series proved very popular, and with this in mind we’re pleased to launch a new Practical Guide version consolidating the learning from the series into a single webinar combined with updated guidance and scenarios.

This webinar provides an insight into the rules that apply to reporting breaches, and a series of case studies showing what you should consider when deciding whether or not a breach should be reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

This webinar replaces the previous Breach Management webinar series which has now retired.

Monthly Compliance update – May 2024

On the first Thursday of each month, Brian Rogers hosts a 45-minute compliance update webinar for the legal profession. These sessions have proven very popular with our clients and this month we had over 2,000 registrants for the live broadcast.

These update webinars focus on current and upcoming events within the legal regulatory space and some of the topics we covered in this edition were:

• Regulatory consultation reviws.
• Unethical conduct.
• AML/Sanctions update.
• Deepfake CDD videos.
• And more….

Source of Funds Masterclass

During April Access Legal hosted a fireside-chat style webinar between industry experts Brian Rogers and Rhiannon Davies on the topic of source of funds.

The webinar proved very popular and is now available in Access Learning, covering key considerations around:

• Sources of funds and wealth and their definitions
• Enhanced due diligence
• Risk assessments
• Regulatory and accreditation requirements
• …and much more.

Sexual Harassment in Law Firms

This month we’ve launched a fully updated version of our Sexual Harassment course which replaces its predecessor. The course ensures legal professionals understand their obligations towards vulnerable clients and safeguarding.

Consisting of three activities, it details how to recognise the signs of a vulnerable client, how to discuss vulnerability issues and adapt your services to meet clients’ needs, as well as providing an overview of and best practice for safeguarding.

The course includes video advice from a practicing Private Client Solicitor, and it also features a number of realistic scenarios to demonstrate how legal professionals may encounter vulnerable clients in their day-to-day work – and how best to respond to ensure compliance with SRA requirements.

The course concludes with an assessment.

After completing this training, learners will be able to:

• Define and identify sexual harassment.
• List relevant legislation and firm obligations.
• Describe appropriate ways to challenge sexual harassment and support colleagues.

POLICIES AND PRECEDENTS CATALOGUE

Menopause Policy and Supporting Documents v1.2 – we’ve enhanced the contents to reflect recent developments in this area, in particular the release of the BSI Standard Menstruation, Menstrual Health and Menopause in the Workplace – sections of the Standard are referred to and recommended to consider by way of further guidance.

Ethical Values Policy v1.1 – has been updated on a light touch basis to enhance the content generally and to add in more examples of ethical issues, within the table in the Appendix, which firms may wish to use as talking points for internal training sessions.

ACCESSING THE UPDATES

All these updates will appear in the respective catalogues in the Learning Library of your portal. Any titles listed as Updated are new versions of existing titles and replace the current version automatically.

If you have any questions about these latest releases please contact us at enquiries@ea-learningtech.com or call 01787 468512.