How To Choose and Work with Lawyers and Clients By Peter D. Maynard 1 “There could be nothing more important than having high moral and ethical standards as a legal practitioner and judge”. The Right Honourable Sir Dennis Byron, President of the Caribbean Court of Justice. 2 For two consecutive years, 2014 and 2015, conferences were held at the University of the Bahamas under the theme “How to Choose and Work with Lawyers and Clients.”
Partners included the Council of Legal Education
(Eugene Dupuch Law School) and certain law firms and lawyers. 3
The
University of the Bahamas Law Department treated this conference as part of its commitment to look into the present condition and future of the profession.
The organizers aspired to shape this event into an opportunity to engage practitioners, students and the public in the region as a whole. Therefore, BA, MA, LLM, PhD, FCIArb. Barrister (Bahamas, England and Wales, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and Antigua-Barbuda), Past Chair of the Public and Professional Interest Division of the International Bar Association (IBA), Head of the Law Department, University of The Bahamas, and Senior Partner, Peter D Maynard Counsel & Attorneys (a full service commercial firm), Bay Street (P O Box N-1000), Nassau, Bahamas. www.maynardlaw.com, tel. (242)325-5335. I acknowledge the assistance of lawyer Bianca Rahming and student Clyde Newton in the preparation of this article. 2 Graduation at Hugh Wooding Law School, Class of 2013. 3 The author, his above firm and university department spearheaded the idea of the conference especially in tandem with Norman Clark of Walker Clark LLC, former chair of the IBA Law Firm Management Committee and current chair of the IBA Poverty and Social Development Subcommittee; and Steven Richman of Clark Hill PLC, co-chair of the IBA Alternative and New Law Business Structures Committee and chair of the Section of International Law of the American Bar Association (ABA), among others. 1
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