We believe in keeping our clients up-to-date on legal matters that impact them both personally and in business. Our regular webinars, training and events are hosted by Solicitors who specialise in their field. They will provide the latest legal insights and updates, along with practical and implementable actions to help you navigate change.

Our spring event programme is now available. You will find a range of interesting and insightful topics, from Data Protection to Intellectual Property, to Corporate and Immigration.

Data Protection Webinar | Data Protection Developments

Wednesday 26 April 2023
9:30am – 10:30am

Data subject rights continue to present challenges to organisations and are becoming increasingly complex. Morgan O’Neill will discuss these challenges and provide advice to participants on how to efficiently manage these individual rights requests.

This webinar will cover:

• A practical overview of data subject rights and discussion of real examples
• The application of exemptions
• When is it really ok to refuse a request?
• Q&A

Who should attend?

• Individuals responsible for managing privacy
• Data Protection and Governance professionals
• Managers
• Business owners

Booking Link – https://www.thorntons-law.co.uk/events/data-protection-data-protection-developments

Intellectual Property Webinar |IP Licensing: The Key Considerations

Thursday 3 May 2023
09:30 – 10:30am

Whether you are starting out or growing a business, unlocking the value of your intellectual property assets through licensing can help you grow significantly, reach new markets and unlock new revenue streams. If you are unsure about where to start, what questions to ask or how to negotiate a license agreement, join Intellectual Property expert and Trade Mark Attorney, Kirsty Stewart for this webinar.

During the webinar Kirsty will provide an overview of the licensing process and share practical guidance for those seeking to commercialise their Intellectual Property.

This webinar will cover:

• Benefits and risks of licensing of IP
• Conducting due diligence on prospective licensees
• Key contractual issues when putting in place a licence

Who should attend?

• Business owners
• Chief Marketing Officers or Directors

Booking Link – https://www.thorntons-law.co.uk/events/intellectual-property-licensing-the-key-considerations

Corporate Webinar | Ensuring the decisions of Directors protect themselves as well as the business

Thursday 11 May 2023
9:30am – 10:30am

As a Director, running a business can present regular challenges. However external factors like an economic downturn, a global pandemic or supply issues can bring challenges out with their control. Directors face important decisions during these challenging times and it’s important that you recognise such and make the right decisions in response.

Where a business is experiencing trouble it’s important that Directors look out for early warning signs and seek advice on possible solutions. If Directors continue to trade while insolvent they risk fines, being made personally responsible for company debts, or even a potential disqualification from directorship, as a result.

In this webinar and Q&A, Partners Pamela Muir and Chris Allan look at the decisions that directors of small or medium-sized businesses might be forced to take, early warning signs and the practical steps Directors can take.

This webinar will cover:

• Directors duties; paper trails, regular accounts and objective assessments
• Wrongful Trading; if things go wrong the steps you should take to avoid personal liability
• Decisions and Actions that can be unwound
• Where and when to get support

Who should attend:

• Directors
• Shareholders
• Senior Managers

Booking Link – https://www.thorntons-law.co.uk/events/corporate-webinar-ensuring-the-decisions-of-directors-protect-themselves-as-well-as-the-business

Immigration Webinar | Right to Work Checks one 1 year on: what have we learned?

Wednesday 17 May 2023
9:30am – 10:30am

As an employer, securing skilled talent and recruiting the right person for a role is vital to the future success of your businesses. Businesses who wish to recruit a candidate from overseas, or transferring staff from overseas offices to work in the UK need to apply for a Sponsor Licence so they can sponsor foreign workers. This webinar will cover the key points businesses need to know about the Sponsor Licence system.

Homeworking and hybrid working patterns look here to stay and this webinar will cover what Home Office Licenced Sponsors need to do to ensure that they are meeting their duties and responsibilities when their sponsored workers are working from home from an employment law and immigration law perspective.

In the last 12 months there have been a number of changes on how to conduct Right to Work checks. Some of the changes are minor or procedural, however some are more substantial. It is therefore important that you stay up to date on changes to Immigration rules and ensure that you are doing everything needed to remain compliant.

A year on from the introduction of many of the changes Employment specialist, Noele McClelland and Business Immigration Solicitor Gurjit Pall, will share what we have learnt about the new processes and the key points employers should be aware of.

This webinar will cover:

• New Right to Work Checks; one year on.
• Sponsor Licences; what you need to know
• Working From Home – What this means for employers with sponsor licences

Who should attend?

• HR and recruitment professionals
• Managers
• Business Owners

Booking Link – https://www.thorntons-law.co.uk/events/immigration-law-right-to-work-checks-one-year-on-what-have-we-learned

Data Protection Webinar | Data Protection Round Up

Wednesday 7 June 2023
9:30am – 10:30am

Join Morgan O’Neill and guest speakers for a half yearly round up on data protection.

Morgan will chair a discussion covering enforcement actions, case law and regulatory updates which have developed during the first 6-months of the year. The panel will review the impact of these matters, emerging trends in data protection law and practices and consider the impact that this will have on UK organisations.

The session will be interactive, so please bring questions and comments.

Who should attend?

• Individuals responsible for managing privacy
• Data protection and Governance professionals
• Managers
• Business Owners

Booking Link – https://www.thorntons-law.co.uk/events/data-protection-data-protection-round-up