Brexit: the impact on the legal services sector, free movement of workers and non-EEA immigration

Date: Wednesday 26 April 2017
Time: 12:00 registration and lunch, 12:30 – 15:00
Venue: Shakespeare Martineau, 1 Colmore Circus Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6AA
CPD: 2 learning hour
Fees: Members: £50 + vat, Non-members: £70 + vat
Speakers: Tom Brett Young & Frances Anderson – Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP

Brexit is causing a great deal of uncertainty for all sectors of the UK economy. This course looks at the potential impact of the UK leaving the EU on the legal services sector as a whole and law firms as employers, including discussion of what a post-Brexit immigration system might look like.

Topics covered include:

• Brexit – update on latest developments
• impact on the legal services sector as a whole
• impact on law firms as employers
• post-Brexit immigration

Frances is a commercial lawyer who specialises in intellectual property and technology law. She advises large and small technology companies, universities, local authorities and charities, dealing with commercial contracts, intellectual property licensing and transfers, both within the UK and internationally.

She is also a Guardian of the Birmingham Assay Office and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Tom is a specialist in immigration law advising on the full range of immigration issues, with a particular focus on advising employers across all sectors.

Tom assists clients with sponsor licence applications, sponsorship of migrant workers under Tier 2 of the Points-Based System and visa and leave to remain applications under all immigration categories. He also delivers training on immigration issues (such as how to carry out compliant ‘Right to Work’ checks) and assists clients with mock sponsor licence inspections and audits of their immigration records. He can also assist you with the development of immigration strategies and policies, such as issuing invitation letters to visitors from overseas and, more recently, planning for Brexit.