The role of law schools and clinical programmes in ending poverty

Tara Archer-Glasgow is a highly experienced dispute resolution lawyer with 25 years of experience in all aspects of commercial litigation. She is a partner at Higgs & Johnson and is the Chairperson of the Firm’s Litigation practice group along with spearheading its Asset Recovery Unit. Tara regularly appears as counsel in many important cases in the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and has also appeared in cases before the Privy Council in England. She provides legal advice to individuals, major financial service providers and global corporations regarding multi-jurisdictional litigation, shareholder disputes, fraud, asset-tracing and internal operations. She has assisted clients successfully in the tracing and recovery of millions of dollars. Tara has advised creditors in several prominent cross border insolvency cases and most notably now represents claimants in the Provisional Liquidation of a multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange. She is recognized by leading legal directories for her expertise and sterling client service. Tara is a former law lecturer at the University of The Bahamas and an Alumni of The University of Western Ontario Canada, The University of Essex, The Inns of Court School of Law in England and she recently completed the Executive Program - Blockchain and Crypto Applications: From Decentralized Finance to Web 3 from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Doctor Juris, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1981 LL.M. London School of Economics (merit in Environmental Law), 1995 B.A. University of Victoria, British Columbia (History) I have substantial experience in practicing in International Public Law including International Economic Law. This experience includes providing advice as legal advisor to the Province of British Columbia relating to developing trade related environmental standards including climate change measures. As well I have substantial practice experience in public law and law reform dealing regulatory law as well as the reform of private law including Franchise and the public law of Consumer Law. I have a deep scholastic interest in jurisprudence and the sociology of law.

Norman Clark is one of the founders and currently the managing principal of Walker Clark. He has advised law firms and other legal services organizations in more than 70 countries on strategy, governance, business development, and sustainable profitability, with a special emphasis on the challenges facing law firms in emerging and fast-changing legal markets. Norm is a retired member of the Pennsylvania bar. Before becoming a full-time consultant to the legal profession 27 years ago, Norm served the legal profession in a variety of roles, such as trial lawyer, trial judge, law professor, legal advisor to senior government officials, and senior manager of an 800-lawyer international legal services organization. He is a past chair of the Law Firm Management Committee of the International Bar Association, past co-chair of the ABA Cross-Border Practice Management Committee, and a prolific author and frequent speaker at legal conferences worldwide. He currently is a member of the Advisory Boards of the IBA Law Firm Management Committee and the IBA Poverty and Social Development Committee, and a member of the IBA Latin American Regional Forum and the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum, as well as a member of the American Bar Association Section of International Law, where he serves on several committees related to the international practice of law. He also is a member of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association. His major publications include: Good Governance in Law Firms (2014); Sustainable Profitability in a Disrupted Legal Market (2019); Outsourcing of Core Legal Functions (2020); and Eradicating Poverty Through Social Development: A Practical Guide for Lawyers (2021); as well as two novels, Into the Endless Mountains (2019), and Under Hays Woods (2021).