Attend and learn how to recognise and mitigate legal and reputational risk that can affect you or your clients. Receive expert guidance on how to hold and get the most out of performance conversations with your employees. Receive an important reminder on what constitutes appropriate professional conduct online and outside of hours, and critique situations that can leave you exposed to risk. All while claiming your professional skills, practice management and ethics points. WEB243N19Z
Description
Attend 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
Practice Management & Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm A New Era of Legal and Reputation Risk Mitigation
- The role of lawyers and communication/reputation management specialists to map, track, prepare for and minimise reputation risk
- The new risk frontiers and how to mitigate these risks
- The impact of getting it wrong: new crisis research into 73 listed company crises from around the world and the often severe and long-lasting financial impacts
- Decades of lessons learned about the best and worst of crisis management and how to apply to your firm and clients
Presented by Craig Badings, Partner, SenateSHJ
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Holding Effective Performance Conversations with your Employees
- What is the purpose of having a conversation about performance?
- What is the difference between performance reviews and performance management?
- Should performance discussions be separate to salary reviews?
- When should performance conversations be held?
- How many should there be?
- Is there a fine line between performance conversations and bullying?
Presented by Joydeep Hor, Founder and Managing Principal, People + Culture Strategies
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm Navigating Ethical Dilemmas Online and Out of Hours
- Professional conduct issues arising:
- online(on social media, using AI tools like ChatGPT, and by email)
- ‘out of hours’
- Using the Australian Solicitors Conduct Rules to understand (and navigate) ethical dilemmas
Presented by Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers, and panel member, Professional Conduct Advisory Panel of the Law Society of New South Wales
Chair:
Guy Betar, Principal Lawyer – Commercial, FCW Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Break
