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 Redlich
Elizabeth 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.
This seminar is part of a series
Upskill through Ethical Lessons: Lunchtime Series for Government Lawyers
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
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