PROFESSOR KIM ECONOMIDES

Kim Economides is Professor of Legal Ethics and a former Head of Exeter School of Law (1999-2004). He was Acting Director of the Centre for Legal Practice (2005-2006) prior to the Centre's transfer to the University of Plymouth. Thirty years ago, before coming to Exeter he was a researcher on the Florence Access to Justice Project based at the European University Institute in Italy. He co-directed the ESRC-funded Access to Justice in Rural Britain Project (1983-1987) and from 1993-95 was seconded as Education Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education & Conduct (ACLEC). He is Founding General Editor of the international journal Legal Ethics and in 2004 organised the First International Lawyers’ Ethics Conference (ILEC 1) at Exeter, and in 2008 is an invited keynote speaker at ILEC 3 in Brisbane. He chairs the Board of Trustees of the Hamlyn Trust and is series editor of the prestigious Hamlyn Lectures. He is currently advising the Law Society of England & Wales on the reform of ethical training for future solicitors in anticipation of changes in the market for legal services brought about by the Legal Services Act 2007, having been appointed in 2006 as Specialist Adviser to the Joint Committee on the Draft Legal Services Bill. He is also collaborating with an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers based in London, Bristol, Australia and the US investigating ethics in large law firms.