Nordic Lawyers Academy Circa 2004-2008

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In 2004 The Nordic Bar Associations joined forces with the Nordic Lawyers Academy to coordinate and organize advanced training for Nordic lawyers.
The first result of this new partnership was a one-day conference in Copenhagen October 26, entitled "How to make a business out of mediation-What's in it for you?".
Later that year a two day conference was held entitled "Corporate Governance Status, Perspective and Practical Implications". The conference took place in Copenhagen on 12-13 November 2004 with experts in the field from Europe and the United States.

This was the Nordic Lawyers Academy website for a number of years.
Content is from the site's 2004-2006 archived pages.

A cooperation about legal education between the Bar and Law Societies 
in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

 

Nordic Lawyers Academy

by
Henrik Rothe, Secretary General, Denmark
Markku Ylönen, Secretary General, Finland
Ingimar Ingason, Secretary General, Iceland
Anne Ramberg, Secretary General, Sweden
Merete Smith, Secretary General, Norway

High level education for lawyers

For the moment we experience that in all the Nordic countries lawyers specialize in order to meet the market demand for counselling at a very high level.

This will initiate new demands to the in-service training establishments, which the Nordic Bar and Law Societies in different set ups offer to their members.

In all the Nordic countries a broad range of courses are presented, but we must admit that on national level it may be difficult to offer relevant courses, seminars and conferences to those lawyers who are highly specialized and therefore make major demands on the in-service training activities which could be relevant.

In the single country itself we simply do not have enough potential customers in order to develop and offer in-service training on a proper financial level, even though the subject in question relates to a field, in which many lawyers do business. A good example is company law, within which quite a large number of lawyers work, but company law is at the same time an example of a special field for highly qualified lawyers to solve particularly difficult cases. Also on the national level it has been hard to attract the international competencies, who would be obvious first speaker and lecturers for this group of lawyers, and for whom it would also be interesting for the participants to establish a personal contact.

Therefore, The Bar and Law Societies in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have decided to join forces to establish a quite new forum for in-service training of lawyers on a very high level – Nordic Lawyers Academy.

In this new forum we offer seminars, conferences and courses twice a year – but more often, should this initiative turn out successfully - mainly addressed at business lawyers who cannot cover their need for relevant in-service training through the existing national in-service training programmes.

Typically courses, seminars and conferences in Nordic Lawyers Academy will last a couple of days and take place in one of the Nordic capitals.

On the preparation of the in-service training activities in Nordic Lawyers Academy the highly  professional qualification is no doubt the most central aspect. On the work out of the draft we have, however, also focused on the possibilities for networking among the participants from the Nordic countries. Therefore we have incorporated social elements in all the arrangements, which should make networking possible.

Under "Archive" in the menu you can read about the conferences that have taken place. New events will always appear from the frontpage.

We are very proud to present a list of top professional lecturers from Europe as well as from the USA. We do hope that the participation in this conference will be a must for the Nordic lawyers, who deal with company law problems at a high level.

 

Target group

The conference is aimed at attorneys and lawyers in the Nordic countries, however, other persons especially interested in the topics of the conference are also welcome to attend. In case of overbooking attorneys who are members of the Nordic Bar and Law Societies will take precedence over other persons.

If you want to register for the conference, please go to the registration area.

 

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Archive of Programs

24.- 25.04.2008

Internasjonal skatterett

3.- 6.04.2008

Drift av Advokatvirksomhed i Norden

9.-10.11.2006

Terroistbekämpning

12.-13.10.2006

Nordic Employment Law

23.-27. 08 2006

Drift af Advokatvirksomheder i Norden

04.-05.2006

Challenges in Nordic cartels

20-21.04.2006

Familie- og arverettskurs

1-2.12.2005

Insolvente selskaper - praktisk restrukturering

09-13.03.2005

Drift av advokatvirksomhet

12-13.11.2004

Corporate Governance

26.10.2004

How to make a business out of Mediation

 

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2004 Program

 

Corporate Governance 
Status - Perspectives and Practical Implications Conference 
12 – 13 November 2004

Venue:
Building of the Society of Danish Engineers, IDA, 
31-33 Kalvebod Brygge, DK-1780 Copenhagen K  

 

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Check this: When my fiancé was a young lawyer, I visited him in Copenhagen while he was attending the second two day conference organized by the Nordic Bar Associations and the Nordic Lawyers Academy in 2003. The people he met there ultimately lead to a great job offer which he accepted. With that job, we were able to marry and now live in Copenhagen. Each November we celebrate his good fortune at being able to that Corporate Governance Conference and all that followed. Recently I was in the US supporting my younger brother who was attempting a new program he found at an online site called LifeBac, for alcoholics that uses both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. The medication that is used in the treatment is Baclofen, a drug that doctors in Europe have been prescribing for a number of years as the primary treatment for people who drink excessively. I read that some clinical trials show that Baclofen has a 65% success rate for treatment-resistant alcoholics, allowing them to return to low- or medium-risk drinking. My interest in understanding alcohol consumption and its impact on public health started when I met my future husband who was an assistant attorney in Manhattan. He worked in family court and saw first hand the devastating effects of drinking and other drug abuse. When we moved to Denmark so he could continue with his work, I began my doctorate's degree in public health. One thing led to another and soon I was investigating the effectiveness of different alcoholism treatment programs. The success rate for AA and other residential 12 step treatment programs in the US is about 10%, whereas doctors in Europe are prescribing Baclofen a drug that removes or strongly suppresses cravings for alcohol in 92% of people. Unlike 12 step programs in the US that require abstinence such as AA and define Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) as a “chronic relapsing brain disease”, doctors in Europe say that alcoholism is not a disease, but a symptom of a larger psychological issue. I obviously have a more personal motive for hoping that baclofen and psychotherapy will help my brother. It seems that by giving a person a medication so they control their drinking, a coach to motivate for habit change, a community of similar people to support and access to powerful behavior change programs, that person should have a better change of succeeding. My brother hated feeling a failure on abstinence free 12 step programs that never seemed to work for him. On this LifeBac program it appears he now has all the tools to succeed, the power to choose his own path, his own goals, and how fast or slow he would like to get there.

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VENUE 2004

IDA Conference Centre

 

The Corporate Governance Conference will take place in the conference centre of the Society of Danish Engineers (IDA), 31-33 Kalvebod Brygge, DK-1780 Copenhagen K.

IDA is experienced in hosting a number of small and large conferences, both Danish and international and engineer related events as well as non-engineer conferences such as this.  

The building is situated at the waterfront with a spectacular view of the harbour.

 

 

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2006 Program