Welcome to Jonathon Bray, director of Jonathan Bray Limited, a specialist law firm compliance consultancy.

Jon took us through the pitfalls of working with outcomes-focused regulation and what's lacking in the SRA guidance. We discussed what an ABS is and how a business like this may approach compliance.

We also talked about some of the new challenges on the horizon for law firms and their risk and compliance teams, such as the increasing focus on culture in compliance.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

We spoke to Steve Brett, Co-founder of E3 Compliance Training, who is on a mission to rid the world of grudge training and box ticking.

Just because someone has completed the training, doesn't mean they've engaged with it. Did you know people have been known to pay their kids to do their compliance training for them?!

Find out Steve's strategies for creating engaging training in this week's episode.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

This week, we spoke to Ed Turner, Strategic Risk Partner at Mishcon de Reya. It was fantastic to hear Ed's point of view on compliance and how it fits in with the wider business.

We talked about measuring the success of a risk and compliance function on the right metrics, and not pigeonholing it with the wrong ones, and how creating alignment between the risk and compliance function and the business can give the firm a competitive advantage.

Ed told us how he strives to empower subject matter experts in his team, and how the most important question he can ask is: 'what do you think?'

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

This week, we spoke with Jessica Cook, a senior risk and compliance professional in the offshore world. She gave us a great insight into compliance at offshore law firms in places like the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands, the differing challenges that these firms face and how Hollywood has contributed to the misconceptions that surround them.

Jessica also spoke about the vital importance of developing soft skills, such as building trust in the success of a compliance function.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

This week, we are joined by Asal Heydari, Global Head of Business Acceptance and Conflicts Management at Clyde & Co. Asal has been in law firm risk and compliance since the industry began and has a fantastic perspective on how the space works.

She talked about how to assess urgency when fee earners bring their clients and matters to be cleared, and the benefits of not giving exact timeframes. The benefits of upskilling team members to perform total clearances, and whether AML and conflicts teams should be split, or combined.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

In this episode, we spoke to Charlotte Murray, Solicitor in Risk and Compliance at Clarke Willmott. Charlotte told us how she qualified as a solicitor via CILEX after years of unsuccessful training contract applications, and wishes she had known about this route sooner. After qualifying, she fell into the wonderful world of risk and compliance and has never looked back.

We talked about how valuable personal content can be on LinkedIn, and what it was like to go viral, as well as increasing awareness of the compliance department within a law firm, and challenges facing the legal profession and compliance in general.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

In this episode, we spoke to Mark Penlington, Director of Risk and Internal Audit at Irwin Mitchell. Mark gave us some fascinating insights into what an internal audit function is and why it’s so important.

Internal audit is there to support you and get you the resources and help you need, rather than just looking over your shoulder and pointing out what you’ve done wrong, and how internal audit can actually help a firm grow and successfully reach its goals by steering investment to specifically where it is needed.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

This week, we spoke to Jessie Williams, Head of Risk & Compliance at Excello Law, about her career in law firm risk and compliance.

We covered how compliance departments are perceived within a law firm and how this can be improved upon, how legal education seems to leave out the importance of risk and compliance, the fairness of personal sanctions, as well as Jessie’s most valued skill: never being afraid to admit when she doesn’t know the answer.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

Our guest this week was Bea Berry, Risk & Compliance Advisor at Stevens & Bolton. Bea shared how she fell into risk and compliance, and we discussed whether you need to be qualified to succeed in this space (hint, you don’t!)

Bea explained how full-cycle project management brings a creative element to compliance, and it’s not always just about doing everything by the book - there’s a lot of creative thinking and problem-solving involved. We discussed how more importance is being placed on employee welfare and well-being in law firms, and how this is becoming part of the compliance team’s remit.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.

This week, we spoke to James Smither, Head of Risk Management at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The conversation covered some huge topics such as: what is enterprise risk and why is it important, how and why should we think about risk appetite, being unapologetically proud of your role as a risk and compliance professional, and how to make the legal profession more inclusive for neurodiverse people.

James helps coordinate the Legal Neurodiversity Network, where now over 40 law firms are working together and having conversations around this topic. Find out more about them on LinkedIn.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode. This show is for YOU so we are really interested to hear what you want, who you want us to speak to, and what you want us to talk about. Please do feel free to get in touch and let us know.

Oh, and whilst we don't really talk about it, we are a recruitment agency so if you need help with recruitment or you are looking for new options on your career path, please get in touch at [email protected] or +44 207 117 2542. You can find out more about what we do on our website or by following us on LinkedIn.

This podcast was hosted by Adam Spencer, produced by Adam Spencer and Kat Dadswell for AJ Fox Compliance, recorded and edited by Kerem Gokce and Taylan Yalkin at Wilmington PLC, and sponsored by The International Compliance Association.

The ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 170,000 professionals through their internationally recognised portfolio of professional qualifications, in-company training, continuous professional learning and world-class events. Get 10% off any ICA course with our discount code, AJFOX10. Visit their website to choose your course.