Acquire essential practical project management skills to enhance your litigation practice, elevating it to the next level and surpassing your clients' expectations. WEB243N61CZ
Chair:
Lisa Gooneratne, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth
Practice Management & Business Skills
12.00pm to 1.15pm Legal Project Management: Key Skills for Your Litigation Practice
- Understanding how Legal Project Management can benefit litigation
- Fundamentals of Legal Project Management
- Matter scoping
- Matter scheduling
- Matter costing
- Managing variations and client expectations
Presented by Therese Linton, Founder and Principal, Basalt Group
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Ms Therese Linton, Founder and Principal,
Therese Linton is a global leader in legal project management and legal process improvement. Over the last decade she’s worked with thousands of lawyers to introduce innovative ways of working that delights clients, reduces stress, improves work-life balance and leads to better legal outcomes. Check out www.basaltgroup.global. Being one of the founders of the field of Legal Project Management and literally wrote the book in 2014, Therese has the practical experience and academic credentials to support you to adopt new ways of working. As part of the work Therese does training and coaching lawyers in Legal Project Management, she discovered that most lawyers have not been introduced to personal productivity concepts that many other professionals take for granted. So, she gathered her selection of the ’best of the best’ personal productivity tools and now the Personality Productivity Skills session is one of the most popular that she delivers. Her latest coaching program The POSITIVE Lawyer is now under development. Find out more about the groundbreaking POSITIVE Lawyer Online learning and coaching program by booking in a FREE initial coaching session with Therese. Therese is uniquely positioned with extensive academic credentials and a project delivery career spanning more than 3 decades. She was a Lecturer for Sydney University’s prestigious Master of Project Management for 7 years and also lectured in Legal Project Management for the College of Law for 3 years. She has written three books – Project Management Essentials, Cengage 2014, Legal Project Management, LexisNexis 2014., and the new Amazon best seller The POSITIVE Lawyer Mindset https://www.amazon.com/POSITIVE-Lawyer%C2%AE-MINDSET-Inspiring-transform/dp/B0B2TW64HT.
Ms. Lisa Gooneratne, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
Lisa has extensive experience in personal injury insurance law, in a variety of areas. Lisa acts for both private insurers and Government agencies, in the areas of public liability, workers compensation, medical negligence, coronial inquests, medical disciplinary matters and motor vehicle accidents. Lisa also acts for a self-insurers, including a national airline and national banks, in relation to personal injury claims. Lisa is actively involved in the ACT legal community, being a former chair of the Young Lawyers Committee and currently a Commissioner and Board member of the ACT Legal Aid Commission.
This seminar is part of a series
Litigation Fundamentals: A Lunchtime Series: Preparing a Case for Trial
Delve into three fundamental litigation skills all over lunch: briefing counsel, case preparation for trial, and optimising litigation practice through key project management skills. Learn when and how to brief counsel, how you can prepare your case for trial and finally, takeaway how to streamline your litigation practice with essential project management skills. A must attend series for all aspiring litigators. WEB242N61Z
Description
Attend the full series and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
2 units 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.
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