Conflicts, Confidentiality and Disclosure: Requirements, Risks and Remedies

Written in an easily accessible Q&A format, this book offers assistance to those regulated by the SRA or employed in SRA-regulated firms. It gives insight into the risk management of conflicts of interests as well as the duties relating to confidentiality and disclosure. All information is presented in a user-friendly manner, providing a clear examination of the main considerations, offering compliance tips designed to mitigate the risks together with signposts to further resources.

Key areas covered include:

• regulatory requirements
• professional ethics
• conflicts of interest
• confidentiality
• disclosure
• practice area-specific conflicts
• duties to clients and to the firm
• practical compliance guidance
• reporting serious breaches to the SRA.

This book is an essential companion for lawyers and non-lawyers alike to manage the regulatory and ethical duties connected with conflicts of interests and confidentiality and disclosure duties. Written in an accessible style, it can be dipped into as required, read cover to cover or used as a basis for training.

Tracey Calvert is a lawyer who has worked both in private practice and in-house. She has been a senior ethics adviser and then a policy executive with the Law Society and the SRA. Tracey now runs her own consultancy business which provides regulatory, compliance and ethics services and is the author of several books published by the Law Society, including In House Lawyers’ Risk and Compliance Questions and Answers; and Risk and Compliance Questions and Answers (co-authored with Rebecca Atkinson).