The Commissioner regularly presents papers at conferences around Australia and overseas. A selection of papers are available online:

Minimising Complaints and Maximising Your Ethical Standards, presented by Steve Mark, LexisNexis Conference, 24 May 2011

Complaints Against Lawyers, What Really Happens at the OLSC by Steve Mark, June 2011

Solicitors' Undertakings - Dangers and Safeguards presented by Steve Mark at the NSW Solicitors compuslory CPD Intensive, Television Education Network, Sydney 11 March 2011

The Ethics of Leadership, a hypothetical presented by Steve Mark at the Rule 42 Mandatory Units for All Lawyers Legalwise Seminars, Sydney, 9 March 2011

Robust Communication Between Lawyers: Where is "the line" and how do you know when a practitioner has crossed it? And what steps can be taken when it occurs? and Hypothetical presented by Steve Mark at the NSW Crown Solicitor's Office, Sydney, 23 February 2011

'Before and after', article by Steve Mark in the law management magazine, the magazine of the Law Management Section of The Law Society of England and Wales, Issue 50, November 2010 at p. 30-31

Regulating For Professionalism: The New South Wales Approach and Keeping Pace with the Evolving Practice of Law presented by Steve Mark at the 2010 American Bar Association Annual Meeting and National Conference of Bar Presidents Workshop, 5 and 6 August 2010, San Francisco, USA

Mark, Steve, Tamsitt, Gary, Preserving the Ethics and Integrity of the Legal Profession in an Evolving Market: A Comparative Regulatory Response, presented at the Regulating and Deregulating Lawyers in the 21st Century, 3 & 4 June 2010, London, England

Mark, Steve, Implementing Anti Money Laundering Legislation and the Professions in D. Chaikin MONEY LAUNDERING, TAX EVASION & TAX HAVENS, pp37-49

Gordon, Tahlia R, Mark, Steve A, and Parker, Christine E. Regulating Law Firm Ethics Management: An Empirical Assessment of the Regulation of Incorporated Legal Practices in NSW (December 23, 2009), Journal of Law and Society, 2010; U of Melbourne Legal Studies Research Paper No 453, SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1527315

Compliance Auditing of Law Firms: A Technological Journey to Prevention by Steve Mark and Tahlia Gordon, The University of Queensland Law Journal, Vol 28(2), pp201-223, (2009)

Practice Management - Costs for the Legal Profession presented by Steve Mark at the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Queensland State Conference, Gold Coast, 20 February 2010

Reshaping Security with Culture presented by Steve Mark at the ASIS International 4th Asia-Pacific Conference, Sydney, 3 February 2010

Views from an Australian Regulator by Steve Mark, 2009 Journal of the Professional Lawyer, American Bar Association, Centre for Professional Responsibility, pp45-63

Walking the Ethical Tightrope: Balancing the Responsibilities of In-House Counsel to Key Stakeholders presented by Steve Mark at the New Rule 42 for In-House Counsel, Legalwise Seminars Pty Ltd, Sydney, 12 November 2009

Competing Duties - Ethical Dilemmas in Practice presented by Steve Mark at the Mandatory CLE, Newcastle Law Society, 19 October 2009

Ethical Considerations for Costs and Conflicts of Interest presented by Lynda Muston at the Annual Northern Beaches Solicitors Association, Continuing Legal Education Conference, Manly, 25 September 2009

Lawyers Ethics - Values or Rules Based? presented by Steve Mark at the CLE Seminar, Young Lawyers, Sydney, 22 September 2009

Ethics in Practice presented by Steve Mark at the Mandatory CLE - The New Rule, Legalwise Seminars Pty Ltd, Sydney, 22 September 2009

Ethics in Litigation and Court Proceedings presented by Steve Mark at the Australian Young Lawyers Stream, 36th Australian Legal Convention, Perth, 18 September 2009

Conflicts of Interest: Challenges for the Government Lawyer presented by Steve Mark at the 5th Annual Public Sector In House Counsel Conference, Canberra, 27- 28 August 2009

Ethics and Risk Management - How to Reduce Complaints presented by Steve Mark at the Ethics for Lawyers, Centre for Continuing Legal Education, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 August 2009

Innovations in Regulation - Responding to a Changing Legal Services Market by Steve Mark & Tahlia Gordon, 22 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 501 (2009)

Views from an Australian Regulator, supporting Powerpoint presentation and Law Firm Ownership - Fitness to Own Threshold Test presented by Steve Mark at The Future is Here: Globalisation and the Regulation of the Legal Profession, The American Bar Association Centre for Professional Responsibility and Standing Committee on Professional Discipline & Georgetown Centre for the Study of the Legal Profession, Chicago, 27 May 2009

Billing Complaints - Are you Overcharging?, presented by Steve Mark at the Best Billing Practice Legalwise Seminar, Sydney, 24 March 2009

The Office of the Legal Services Commissioner - consumer protection, article by Steve Mark published in the Precedent, Australian Lawyers Alliance bi-monthly Journal, Issue 90, January/February 2009

Implementing Anti-Money Laundering Legislation and the Professions, presented by Steve Mark at the Symposisum on Money Laundering Tax Evasion and Tax Havens, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Sydney, 7 November 2008

Legal Education and the 21st Century Law Graduate, presented by Steve Mark at the Continuing Legal Education Association of Australasia 2008 Conference, Raising the Bar - Professional Development for Legal Education Professions, Sydney, 16 October 2008

OLSC Research Report on the Impact of Management Based Regulation on Incorporated Legal Practices in NSW jointly with Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, September 2008

Re-Imagining Lawyering: Whither the Profession?, Keynote Address presented by Steve Mark at the Australian Academy of Law Symposium 2008, Sydney, 25 July 2008

Technology and Compliance Auditing - The Future of Legal Regulation, presented by Steve Mark at the Third International Legal Ethics Conference, Gold Coast, 13-16 July 2008

What is the impact on Australian culture of the introduction of numerous laws which impact on our civil liberties and some might say our National identity?, presented by Steve Mark at the 6th Annual National Security Australia 2008 Conference, Sydney, 6-7 March 2008

The impact on the Anti-Money Laundering Legislation on the Legal Profession and other Service Industries, presented by Steve Mark at the Anti-Money Laundering 2007 International Quality and Productivity Centre, 30 October 2007

The Corporatisation of Law Firms - Conflicts of Interests for Publicly Listed Law Firms, presented by Steve Mark at the Australian Lawyers Alliance National Conference 2007, Hobart, 11-13 October 2007

Notes on the issue of listing of law firms in New South Wales and the Incorporation of law firms, researched by Tahlia Gordon and prepared by Steve Mark for the Joint NOBC, APRL and ABA Centre for Professional Responsibility Program "Brave New World: The Changing Face of Law Firms and the Practice of Law from a Professional Responsibility Perspective", San Francisco, 10 August 2007

Analysing Alternatives to Time-Based Billing and the Australian Legal Market, presented by Steve Mark at the Finance Essentials for Practice Management Conference, Sydney, 18 July 2007

Money Laundering and Trust - What Role for Lawyers?, presented by Steve Mark at the Marcus Evans Anti-Money Laundering Conference, Sydney, 6 & 7 March 2007

Civility and Professionalism - Standards of Courtesy and Addendum, researched by Tahlia Gordon and presented by Lynda Muston at the Conference of Regulatory Officers, Sydney, 9 and 10 November 2006

New Structures for Legal Practices and the Challenges they bring for Regulators, Steve Mark and Molly Hutcherson, presented by Steve Mark at the 14th Commonwealth Law Conference 2005, London, September 2005

What is Legal Work? - A Regulator's View, presented by Steve Mark at the LAWASIAdownunder2005 Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, March 2005

Legal Fees Review Panel Report, December 2004
Legal Fees Review Panel Discussion Paper "Lawyer's costs and the time billing" including Appendix A and Appendix B, November 2004

Incorporated Legal Practices - A New Era in the Provision of Legal Services in the State of New South Wales, Steve Mark and Georgina Cowdroy, Penn State International Law Review, Spring 2004, Volume 22, Number 4, pp671-693

Is State Regulation of the Legal Profession Inevitable?, presented by Steve Mark at the Pacific Rim Conference, Heron Island, October 2003

Harmonisation or Homogenisation? The Globalisation of Law and Legal Ethics- An Australian Viewpoint, presented by Steve Mark at the Symposium on International Law Ethics at Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville Tennessee, USA, March 2001

Personal Injuries and Workers Compensation Claims: Should these be adversarial?, presented by Steve Mark at the Medicine & Law Conference, Melbourne, May 2001

Regulation: Putting the Profession in Good Order, presented by Steve Mark at the 2001 Conference of Regulatory Officers, Canberra, March 2001

Looking Behind Client Instructions: Ethical Issues, presented by Steve Mark at the LAAMS CLE Seminar, Sydney, March 2001

The Struggle for Identity in a Globalised World, presented by Steve Mark at the Change in Education Research Group Conference, UTS, Kuring-gai Campus, February 2001

The Defence of the Fair Go Society, an occasional address by Steve Mark on being awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa, Macquarie University, October 2000

Resolving Grievances in a Grieving World, presented by Steve Mark at the 11th Women, Management and Industrial Relations Conference, July 1999

Intellectual Property and Indigenous Rights, presented by Steve Mark at the Pacific Science Conference, UNSW, July 1999

Risk – Danger or Development, presented by Steve Mark, December 1998

Complaints Against Lawyers: What are they about and how are they handled?, presented by Steve Mark, Sydney University Law School, Sydney, May 1995