With these three lunchtime webinars in October, you will become CPD compliant with ethics, practice management and professional skills presentations that will enhance your practice as a personal injury lawyer. From conflicts of interest, to what you need to know about neuropsychology, and your obligation to protect client information from cyber attacks - walk away with the most up to date toolkit for your practice. WEB2310N03Z
Description
Attend the full series and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
Ethics for Personal Injury Lawyers: Conflicts of Interest: Legal and Practical Considerations
Thursday, 12 October 2023
In the face of recent high-profile conflicts that have caused a major firm to fall from grace, this conflict-of-interest refresher will recalibrate your ethical compass and assist you to navigate your legal practice with confidence. WEB2310N03AZ
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Conflicts of Interest: Legal and Practical Considerations
- Legal and commercial conflicts: What is a conflict?
- Can I ever act against a former client?
- Lessons from key cases featuring conflicts
- Chinese walls: are they effective?
Presented by Dennis Epstein, Barrister, Second Floor, Selborne Chambers
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Mr. Dennis Epstein, Barrister, Second Floor, Selborne ChambersDennis Epstein is a Barrister at 2nd Floor, Selborne Chambers, Sydney. Dennis has been practicing in the personal injury field for over 30 years. He initially practised as a Solicitor for over 13 years including 7 years at GIO. He was admitted as a Barrister in 1995 and since that time has practice exclusively in the personal injury field, especially in workers' compensation, CTP and public liability claims. He was also appointed for several years as both a District Court and Local Court Arbitrator and has undergone mediation accreditation training.
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Practice Management for Personal Injury Lawyers: Your Obligation to Protect Client Information from Cyber Attacks
Thursday, 26 October 2023
This webinar will bring you right up to date with what is happening in terms of data breach, data sharing and cybersecurity and what you should be doing to protect client information.
Practice Management
1.00pm to 2.00pm Your Obligation to Protect Client Information from Cyber Attacks
- Should data be considered the new ‘oil’ or is it in fact the new ‘asbestos’?
- Why cyber security breaches are bad for your business: both in terms of cost and in reputation
- The legislative consequences that can arise from a cyber breach: for example, penalties under the Privacy Act
- What actions you can take to best protect your organisation and your clients’ information
Presented by Elaine Cheung, Special Counsel, Piper Alderman
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Ms. Elaine Cheung, Special Counsel, Piper AldermanElaine is a special counsel in the financial services and fintech team in Piper Alderman’s Sydney office. She has extensive experience advising and acting for banking and financial services clients in a variety of areas. Her practice includes acting for and advising clients in relation to regulatory compliance and consumer credit issues, the regulation of financial products and services and financial services reform, privacy and data breaches, product design and distribution, applications for Australian Credit Licences and Australian Financial Services Licences, reviewing trust deeds and preparation of loan and mortgage documentation in relation to loans to self-managed super funds, real property financing transactions, mortgage enforcement proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing issues and trade mark and business name issues. Elaine also acts for private clients in residential property transactions and estate planning and estate administration matters.
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Professional Skills for Personal Injury Lawyers: Aortic Transection and Personal Injury Law
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Traumatic aortic transection, also known as aortic rupture, is the near-complete tear through all the layers of the aorta due to trauma. Attend this webinar to obtain knowledge of the medicine and the legal issues that may arise.
Professional Skills
Understanding Traumatic Aortic Transection: Leading Causes and the Ongoing Implications
- Overview of traumatic aortic transection: explanation of symptoms, diagnosis etc
- Causes of traumatic aortic transection, including the prevalence of this being sustained in motor vehicle accidents
- Ongoing treatment and implications for the patient, medically
- Potential legal issues that may arise
Presented by Associate Professor George Matalanis, Cardio Thoracis Surgeon, Director of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at Austin Health
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
*Original Content was created in October 2023
Presenters
Associate Professor George Matalanis, Cardio Thoracis Surgeon, Director of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at Austin HealthAssociate Professor George Matalanis is renowned for his pioneering work in aortic arch surgery without circulatory arrest. He has been the Director of the Cardiac Surgery Unit at Austin Health which is one of Victoria's largest health care providers and he is internationally respected for this work. Associate Professor George Matalanis specialises in coronary bypass graft surgery, cardiac valve surgery, aortic surgery, advanced aortic and mitral valve repair, minimally invasive mitral valve, tricuspid valve and ASD surgery and all aspects of acute and chronic thoracic aortic disease including both open and stent graft repairs. Associate Professor George Matalanis developed a thoracic aortic stent grafting program, and was heavily involved in implementing a total arterial revascularisation program.
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