Meet your obligations under the recommendation from the Robodebt Royal Commission that government lawyers undertake regular training on ethics issues by attending these 3 ethics sessions designed specifically for government lawyers.
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Balancing Government Expectations with Law Plus Working with Political Advisors and Ministerial Offices
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Dive into the intricate dance of law, policy, and politics with our exclusive webinar. Master the art of balancing government expectations, defining in-house counsel roles, and navigating legal privilege and conflicts of interest. Discover how to juggle professional boundaries and political pressures while protecting your role. Register today.
Chair:
Sonja Gasser, Principal Solicitor, ACT Government Solicitor; ACT Public Service Award for Excellence in Leadership
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Balancing Government Expectations with Law Plus Working with Political Advisors and Ministerial Offices
Balancing Government Expectations with Law
- Boundaries of the in-house government lawyer’s responsibilities
- The line between law and policy
- The lawyer’s obligations
- Identify the client
- Employee v professional
- Legal professional privilege scope and protection
- Public interest immunity: scope
- Conflicts of interest: personal and professional
Working with Political Advisors and Ministerial Offices
- Role scope definition
- Drawing the lines of responsibility
- Protecting the in-house counsel
- Juggling: law, policy, politics, probity
- Managing legal professional privilege in oral and written contexts
Presented by Greg D Ross, Principal, Greg D Ross - Lawyer Ltd; Accredited Specialist in Government and Administrative Law, NSW Law Society
Presenters
Greg D Ross, Principal, Greg D Ross - Lawyer LtdGregory has a unique and broad experience of legal practice, particularly Government and Government commercial operations such as procurement and the probity issues relating to Procurement and intellectual property law. Gregory Ross was for many years a partner of Eakin McCaffery Cox’s Commercial Government team. He has many years legal services experience spanning litigious and non-litigious, civil and criminal contexts. He is an accredited specialist in Government and Administrative Law under the NSW Law Society’s Specialist Accreditation.
Sonja Gasser, Principal Solicitor, ACT Government Solicitor
Sonja works as a Principal Solicitor for the ACT Government Solicitor, which involves supervising advice and litigation in regulatory matters. She has worked in-house for several government clients, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the ACT Revenue Office. Sonja won the ACT Public Service Award for Excellence in the Leadership category.
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Best Practice Professional Standards for In-House Teams: Lessons from Recent Inquiries
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Discover best practices for upholding integrity and professionalism in in-house legal teams. Explore strategies for managing ethical dilemmas, handling draft advice, and ensuring robust government policies. Gain insights on addressing unreliable assumptions and maintaining professional standards.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair:
Andrew Yahl, Special Counsel, Bartier Perry Pty Limited
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Best Practice Professional Standards for In-House Teams: Lessons from Recent Inquiries
- Duty to avoid compromise to integrity and professional independence
- Best practice government in-house policies to support professional standards
- Considerations relating to draft advice
- Ethical scenarios faced by government in-house lawyers
- Requests to not put advice in writing or to change advice
- Dealing with unreliable assumptions and incorrect past advice
- Advice based on legal risk assessment
- Frameworks for responding to ethical dilemmas
Presented by Elizabeth Carroll, Partner, Holding Redlich; Executive Member, Law Council of Australia
Presenters
Elizabeth Carroll, Partner, Holding RedlichElizabeth is an award-winning lawyer with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in public and administrative law. She regularly advises on statutory interpretation, privacy, freedom of information, legislative drafting, compliance and regulatory issues. She has an in-depth understanding of the needs of government clients, having successfully led the legal teams at three Commonwealth agencies, most recently as Chief Legal Counsel at IP Australia. Elizabeth enjoys giving back to the community through her current role as an Executive Member of the Law Council of Australia and brings particular expertise relating to professional standards and probity matters. Elizabeth has a strong track record of client service and delivery on innovative legal projects, supporting clients to harness the benefits of technology while addressing privacy and accountability issues.
Andrew Yahl, Special Counsel, Bartier Perry Pty Limited
Andrew Yahl has almost 10 years’ experience advising government, corporate, not-for-profit and charitable organisations on a wide range of employment and industrial relations matters, including anti-discrimination, negotiated exits, professional discipline and litigation in Federal and State courts and tribunals. Andrew has an appreciation for the commercial considerations in decisions made by our clients through his secondments with large corporate clients in the in-house legal team as well as his academic qualifications in professional accounting.
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AI and Ethics – Essentials for Ethical Governments
Thursday, 7 November 2024
Step into the future with our webinar on AI and ethics. Picture navigating a landscape where technology and ethics intersect at every turn. From data privacy to fairness and transparency, we’ll explore the risks and solutions in AI governance. Learn how to tackle ethical dilemmas, prevent breaches, and ensure responsible tech use. Join us to shape the ethical frontier of AI!
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm AI and Ethics – Essentials for Ethical Governments
- Overlap between ethics and law
- Core ethical principles of respect for individuals, beneficence (doing no harm), and justice
- Key areas of ethical risk raised by AI including data responsibility and privacy, fairness, explainability, robustness, transparency, environmental sustainability, inclusion, accountability, trust, and technology misuse
- Focus on privacy and surveillance risks
- Consequences of ethical breaches
- Governance of ethics in respect of AI
Presented by Jim Lennon, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia; Specialist Editor, “Information Technology, E-commerce" and “Intellectual Property” Chapters in the Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents (LexisNexis)
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Jim Lennon, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright AustraliaJim Lennon joined Norton Rose Fulbright in 2013 and is a commercial lawyer with over 25 years' experience in privacy, cyber security, information technology and intellectual property (IT/IP). His main expertise is in privacy, technology procurement, outsourcing and service level agreements (including cloud), website and app development, and patent licensing. Jim gained his experience in large and mid-tier firms and while acting as in-house counsel at BTG plc (then the British Technology Group) and during 5 years as in-house counsel for The University of Western Australia. This year, Jim celebrated his 23rd year of providing pro bono legal advice to the Arts Law Centre of Australia. Jim is also the Specialist Editor for the chapters on Information Technology, E-commerce and Intellectual Property in the Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents published by LexisNexis.
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