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RPC runs training sessions and issues publications throughout the year, many of which are designed to help in-house lawyers stay abreast of important issues affecting their practice.
We would be delighted to have you attend or receive some of these. To ensure we are recommending the best material for you, it would be helpful to discuss your own areas of interest/focus.
Please do get in touch with Charlotte Henschen or Amanda Wadey.
Dispute Resolution:
01
Legal professional privilege
Why this matters: Legal professional privilege is a crucial right which, in specific circumstances, allows businesses to withhold documents from disclosure in court and regulatory proceedings. This session covers the key aspects of, and recent developments in, the two main categories – legal advice privilege and litigation privilege. It will also provide practical guidance on the steps businesses can take to protect privilege.
Audience: Senior management, risk and compliance, legal and litigation teams
Duration: 60 minutes
02
Loss levers in professional negligence claims
Why this matters: Many professional negligence claims involve fierce argument over whether the service provider breached their duty of care. However, that is far from the end of the story. This session covers how the post-breach issues such as scope of duty, causation, contributory fault and quantum can dramatically affect the outcome of a claim.
Audience: Litigation teams
Duration: 60 minutes
03
A practical guide to professional negligence claims
Why this matters: Many professional services providers will encounter negligence claims in the course of doing business. These can often arise several years after the engagement in question. This session provides practical guidance on responding to claims for professional negligence, as well as the steps firms can take to best position themselves in the event such claims arise.
Audience: All legal and litigation teams
Duration: 60 minutes
04
Facing funded claims
Why this matters: This session provides practical and legal guidance for firms facing funded claims. It covers the status of the litigation funding market and key commercial drivers for funders, as well as the impact of funding on various aspects of a claim including disclosure, privilege, security for costs, adverse costs orders and settlement.
Audience: All legal and litigation teams
Duration: 60 minutes
05
Managing large-scale litigation
Why this matters: RPC frequently acts on some of the largest claims in the English Courts. Sometimes coined as "bet-the-business" disputes, these types of claims present unique challenges for businesses, whether they are bringing or defending them. This session covers some of the key issues that arise in large-scale disputes and provides practical insights on businesses can best manage the impact of such claims.
Audience: Senior legal teams
Duration: 60 minutes
06
Witness evidence
Why this matters: This training provides practical and legal guidance for preparing witness evidence in court proceedings. We will cover each stage of the process, including proofing, drafting, preparing for and attending trial. We will also discuss related issues of dealing with hostile witnesses, witness summons and hearsay evidence.
Audience: Litigation teams
Duration: 45 minutes
AI:
07
AI and regulation in the UK and EU
Why this matters: The UK, the EU and the US are all taking different approaches to regulating AI and are running on different timetables. This session explores the approach and key features of the UK's principles based framework and the EU's AI Act, including geopolitical considerations.
Audience: All legal teams
Duration: 60-90 minutes
08
AI and employment
Why this matters: this session looks at some of the primary concerns with AI in relation to employee bias, privacy and replication. It also identifies those features of AI systems (especially in relation to training of data and prompts) that raise concerns or mitigate the risks. Areas covered include: AI ethics policies to better balance the opportunities offered by AI with effective safeguards; understanding the roles and tasks of workers when performing in an AI augmented workplace; understanding and mitigating algorithmic bias, privacy and the use of employee datal and explaining AI decision-making with an emphasis on artificial neural networks and reinforcement learning models.
Audience: All legal, risk and employment/HR teams
Duration: 60-90 minutes
09
AI in dispute resolution
Why this matters: this session covers the multiple ways in which AI has transformed dispute resolution to date, the key issues and risks for parties and legal representatives, the court's response and the further changes on the horizon. The session provides practical guidance for in-house legal teams on where AI can be effectively deployed in the dispute resolution process, and how to manage the associated risks.
Audience: Litigation teams
Duration: 45 minutes
Data and Cyber:
10
Cyber incident walk through
Why this matters: Cyber incidents continue to represent a pervasive risk across all sectors. This session provides a walk-through response to a cyber incident, from the immediate response to managing the long-term consequences. The session explores the legal, regulatory, practical, commercial and reputational issues that often arise following a cyber security incident.
Audience: All legal teams and data/cyber professionals
Duration: 60 minutes
11
Quantum tech essentials
Why this matters: Quantum tech has the potential to undermine widely used public key encryption with wide impact, including on auditors and professional services firms that hold sensitive client data, advise regulated businesses and assess controls around cyber risk. In- house legal teams are looking to understand potential liability, contractual exposure, professional negligence risk, client duties, regulatory expectations and how to advise the business on quantum safe transition and readiness. The litigation angle is strong, but this is also a new advisory area.
Audience: Risk and compliance, in-house legal, senior management, contracts, audit and assurance, litigation, cyber teams.
Duration: 45 minutes
Commercial:
12
Drafting liability and exclusion clauses – what you need to get right
Why this matters: Arguably the most important provisions in any contract, recent case law demonstrates that making mistakes in the drafting of liability and exclusion clauses can have massive consequences for the parties involved. In this practical session, we discuss recent case law trends on the interpretation of liability clauses, what this means for drafting, and how businesses can protect themselves.
Audience: All legal teams
Duration: 60 minutes
13
A refresher on contract terms – warranties, representations and indemnities
Why this matters: the remedies available to a party upon any contractual non-compliance vary widely depending on the legal classification of the relevant term e.g. as a warranty, representation, or indemnity. This session is a useful reminder on when to use each, drafting tips and the implications on the damages and other remedies that may be sought.
Audience: All legal teams
Duration: 60 minutes.
14
Rights and remedies – a practical overview from drafting to enforcement
Why this matters: in this practical session we discuss the range of rights and remedies available to parties in a contractual relationship, with a focus on those which encourage contractual compliance and good behaviour, and ultimately minimise the risk of litigation. We approach this session from both a transactional and litigation perspective, running through issues from the point of drafting to enforcement.
Audience: All legal teams
Duration: 60 minutes
Tax:
15
Recent/planned tax changes
Why this matters: This session will look at UK tax legislation changes that have either come into recent effect or are expected/anticipated to take effect in the near future.
Audience: All legal teams
Duration: 60 minutes