Tight on time? Join us for an intensive, one-day CPD event tailored to help you meet all your requirements before the 31 March deadline. Covering 13 crucial areas of the law, and with focused sessions in ethics, professional skills, practice management, you’ll complete your points with valuable, applicable insights. Don’t let 31 March slip by and register now!

Presenters

Genevieve Dee, Partner, Family & Relationship Law, Lander & Rogers
Accredited Family Law Specialist Genevieve Dee is a partner at Lander and Rogers and has worked exclusively in family law and has fifteen years’ experience. Genevieve specialises in all aspects of family law, including parenting and property matters, financial agreements, spousal maintenance and child support issues. Doyle’s Guide 2022 has recognised Genevieve as a Pre-eminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer and Recommended Complex and High-Value Property Matters Lawyer in Brisbane. In addition, Genevieve has been named as recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 national listings.


Dianne Pendergast, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
Dianne Pendergast was admitted to practice law in 1986. Since then she has practiced predominantly in family law, wills and estates, child protection and domestic violence. Dianne was a partner in a boutique practice until 1992, when she was appointed as a registrar of the Family Court where she worked as a mediator, conciliator and conducted interim hearings for the next 14 years. In 2006 Dianne was appointed to the statutory position of Adult Guardian (Qld.). Dianne has practiced as a barrister for the last 13 years.


Robert Quirk, Barrister, Higgins Chambers
With over 25 years of experience across various legal domains, Robert Quirk has provided counsel to a diverse clientele, including major corporations, government departments, local governments, and individuals. His expertise spans contract, property, commercial, administrative law, environmental law, and appellate work. Additionally, Robert has extensive knowledge in criminal and enforcement matters related to these areas. He is also a Defence Force reservist.


Rob Knowsley LLB, Managing Partner, Knowsley Management Services
Rob Knowsley has spent the 49-plus years since his admission as a lawyer in early 1975 working with growth-oriented legal practices in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He founded Knowsley Management Services (KMS) in early 1988. He is unashamedly passionate about assisting his fellow lawyers to build into their firms a strong ongoing capability to optimise their investments of money, education, experience and time, to produce proper profits, dramatically better profits than most assume possible. He is clear in his view that a profitable firm greatly increases options in terms of succession, a real problem for many partners in small-medium firms. Rob has a long track record of making vast improvements happen in relatively short periods of time in all manner of firms, and brings to his consultancy advice a wide experience from a range of legal roles, having practised as a Barrister and Solicitor, employed lawyer, partner and managing partner, sole practitioner, and in both private practice and Government. He has served on various State and Regional Law Society councils and committees, and Government committees, lectured and written widely on legal practice management, and is a skilled trainer and facilitator. Rob`s day to day contact with all manner of firms, especially those where he is retained on an annual basis as a practice coach, gives him a constantly updated flow of information about the changing practical problems the Legal Profession is facing. He has had significant consulting input into over 1385 legal firms, and greatly assisted his many thousands of seminar and workshop attendees. A significant part of every business day is spent advising lawyers by e-mail, by telephone, Zoom/Teams, or in person. Rob knows what`s needed, what`s possible, and exactly how to achieve it. His ground-breaking systems for planning and ensuring full utilisation of law firm human resources, developed originally in the late Eighties, have stood the test of time, being used to huge advantage in a multitude of firms to this day. Rob adheres fully to the Code of Ethics of the Institute of Management Consultants in Australia.


Peter Travis, Commercial Barrister and Mediator, Gibbs Chambers
Peter Travis is a Queensland barrister, mediator and California attorney who specialises in commercial disputes. He represents clients before all Australian courts and has a national mediation practice specialising in resolving civil disputes across a broad range of practice areas. Before joining the Queensland Bar in 2008, Peter was employed in the media division of a national firm of solicitors, and became a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He later joined the California Bar and practised as a trial attorney in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, Peter represented media clients in complex First Amendment, intellectual property and commercial litigation.


James Harding, Legal Practice Director, Harding Property Law
Starting his own practice Harding Property Law in 2022, James stands out in the Queensland property and development sector with his unique blend of entrepreneurial experience and legal expertise. His firm, established to provide strategic advice on a wide array of complex property-related issues, quickly became known for its practical solutions catering to both corporate and private clients. James's journey in the legal field is underpinned by his background as a small business owner and employer, bringing a rare combination of commercial insights and legal acumen to his practice. This blend proves invaluable in navigating the intricate landscape of property law and commercial transactions. Earlier in his career, while with a national firm, James represented a diverse range of clients including State Government bodies, national statutory organizations, and charitable institutions, skilfully managing their property transactional needs in Queensland. His responsibilities encompassed the acquisition and sale of businesses, corporate restructuring, and providing intricate titling and structuring advice. James's expertise also extends to handling COVID-19 related leasing issues, where he advised national shopping centre operators. His proficiency in Foreign Investment Review Board Approval, compliance, enforcement responses, and advisory on Duties and Australian Foreign Acquirer Duty, further solidifies his reputation as a leader in property law. With his team at Harding Property Law, James continues to deliver tailored and strategic legal solutions, demonstrating a deep understanding of both the legal intricacies and the commercial realities of property transactions.


Dr. Graeme Edwards CFE, Director, CYBER I Pty Ltd
Graeme Edwards is a Detective in the Queensland Police Service Fraud and Cyber Crime Group in Brisbane, Australia. Edwards has been a member of the Queensland Police Service since 1999, having previously been a Detective in the New Zealand Police Service. He has been a specialist investigator of financial and cyber crime for approximately 12 years. He has conducted numerous investigations into financial and cyber crime; its effects on their victims and identifying new methodologies on how criminals are using the internet. Currently, he is in the final stages of completing of Doctorate of Information Technology with a thesis on investigating cybercrime in a multi- jurisdictional environment.


Alex Tuhtan, Director, Shand Taylor Lawyers
Alex Tuhtan is the Director at Shand Taylor and leads its building and construction team. Alex specialises in preparing all types of construction contracts, preparing adjudication applications and responses, advising on licensing issues and all types of construction disputes. Alex has over 7 years’ experience in all courts and tribunals and regularly acts for developers, builders, subcontractors, construction consultants and other construction professionals. In 2020, Alex was listed as a recommended back-end construction lawyer on Doyle’s Guide and sits on the committee of the Commercial Law Association of Australia (Queensland Chapter). Alex frequently hosts presentations and workshops regarding construction law and presents externally for organisations such as the Commercial Law Association.


Karyn Reardon, Partner, Piper Alderman
Karyn Reardon has specialised in the resolution of large construction and engineering disputes since 1995. She has successfully facilitated the commercial resolution of a wide range of disputes using a variety of processes (including traditional court processes, arbitration, adjudication, mediation and others). As well as drafting and reviewing project documentation, Karyn regularly advises members of the construction and engineering industries on how legislative and other changes will affect their business. She has first-hand experience in the construction industry, having worked for one of Australasia’s largest rural construction companies. Karyn regularly delivers papers to construction industry bodies and at alternative dispute resolution forums. She has teaching experience with the Queensland University of Technology and has conducted onsite training for corporate and government clients. She is a graded arbitrator and an accredited mediator.


Mark D Martin KC, Barrister-at -Law, Level 10 Inns of Court
Martin KC practices in the following areas: commercial, property, insolvency, intellectual property and defamation. He was admitted as barrister in 1987 and Queen's Counsel in 2013. He is Honorary Counsel for the Queensland Reds and Wallabies. Mark is married with 4 children; boys aged 32, 31 and 27 and a girl aged 24. His interests include mountain bike riding and snow skiing.


Neil McGregor, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
As a highly experienced barrister in Brisbane, Neil McGregor appreciates the challenge of family law trial work and advocacy. Neil has achieved a successful career as a barrister, previously solicitor, assisting litigants in attaining their best result in in a timely manner whilst reducing financial and emotional cost. The short-term and long-term effects that family law disputes and litigation have on families is a real consideration for Neil in the conduct of his professional work and he often goes above and beyond the call of duty to meet individual client needs. "I am conscious that family disputes and proceedings are very emotional and can be stressful and confusing, even for the toughest of people," Neil says. "I am conscious of how the client is experiencing the litigation when guiding my clients through the process." Neil was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 1974 before moving to Australia. In Queensland, he was admitted as a solicitor in 1980, and then a barrister in 1984. He is a nationally accredited Mediator, a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (R1005156), and an Arbitrator under s.10M of the Family Law Act 1975. Whilst specialising predominantly in the field of Family Law for more than 25 years, Neil's career includes a wide range of disciplines including drawing Wills and contracts; conveyancing and complex commercial transactions; criminal work (trial and appellate); personal injuries; and civil, commercial and property litigation. The totality of his experience gives Neil a deep pool of knowledge and capability to ensure each case receives the best possible outcome for that person and their individual circumstances. Due to the range of social problems which are often inextricably linked with family law disputes, Neil evaluates each case to determine whether the underlying concern can be addressed more effectively before a Court decision. Throughout his career, Neil has contributed to a number of publications such as Butterworth's Court Forms and Pleadings Queensland, and was a reporter for the Queensland Reports. He regularly presents and speaks at specialist legal conferences and seminars on the many facets that make up Family Law.


Senior Judicial Registrar Ann-Maree McDiarmid, Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
Prior to her appointment as a Senior Judicial Registrar, Ann-Maree was a highly experienced Barrister and nationally accredited mediator who specialized in family law. She is also a qualified arbitrator. She acted in a wide range of complex family law disputes, including appellate work. Ann-Maree is an experienced decision maker, having held appointments as a member of various tribunals. She enjoys academic writing and is a frequent presenter at legal conferences. In the early years, Ann-Maree conducted a general practice and prior to admission to the Bar she worked as Associate to a Supreme Court Judge.


Peter Roney KC, Callinan Chambers
Peter Roney's professional practice has been both broad and focused. He mainly practices in commercial law but was included in the recently published 2022 Doyle’s guide as one of the top 4 leading Queensland Queen’s Counsel the areas of employment, industrial relations and workplace safety matters in Queensland. He is a Committee member Law Council of Australia Insolvency and Restructuring Committee Qld. He has represented the Qld bar on the Law Council of Australia's Equal Opportunity Committee for more than 5 years. He has specialised in advocacy in commercial litigation, corporate management, body corporate and community management litigation, employment, industrial relations and workplace safety , mining, coal seam gas related litigation, Coronial Inquiries and Inquests particularly involving management system failures mechanical and engineering failures, major building and construction and engineering disputes, Peter has acted for and advised clients operating in the coal, gas petroleum and metallurgical industries, including Ministers. Peter has had advisory participation in numerous safety management reviews. He sits and has sat as a member of Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal particularly in the Human Rights division since QCAT was created. He sat in Appeals at the Public Service Commission. He is the Chair of the Qld Bar's Equal opportunity and Diversity Committee and has sat on the Law Council of Australia's Equal Opportunity Committee for more than 5 years.


Nicole Murdoch, Principal, EAGLEGATE
Nicole is the Principal of EAGLEGATE Lawyers and a recommended Lawyer in the 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2018 listing of Leading Queensland Intellectual Property Lawyers - Doyles Guide. As a qualified Lawyer, Electrical Engineer and Trade Marks Attorney, Nicole's qualifications and practical experience allow her to fully comprehend the nexus of the law, technology and business to provide advice to her clients - which is both commercially sensible and technically practical. Nicole's legal experience includes Intellectual Property litigation including, trade mark, patent, copyright and domain name disputes and associated misleading and deceptive conduct, confidential information and passing off disputes. She also acts in Information Theft cases to prepare clients for data breaches, assists upon a breach, gives advice in respect of mandatory data breach notifications and prosecutes insider threats.


Elizabeth Le, Director, Global Immigration, Ernst and Young
Elizabeth Le is a Director in EY’s People Advisory Services practice based in Brisbane. Elizabeth has over 15 years’ experience in all aspects of Australian immigration law and practice, assisting multinational corporation and individuals with their immigration needs across a range of industries, including but not limited to Mining, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, and Aviation. As a child of refugees who escaped the Vietnam War in 1979, Elizabeth recognises how life changing an immigration journey can be, and through her human-centric approach, Elizabeth brings value to her clients through her experience and passion for immigration law. While Elizabeth’s experience is broad, her particular area of focus is employer-sponsored migration, working with small employers to large global employers. Elizabeth’s experience spans across Australian immigration law, policy and practice and includes: • Development of strategic global immigration solutions to support employers to deploy their workforce across borders and attracting and retaining skilled foreign talent • Strategic immigration planning and compliance advice for complex mobile workforces • Advice on the design and implementation of operational efficiencies for global immigration programs • Advice on a wide range of immigration solutions involving home and host jurisdictions • Developing immigration compliance and risk management strategies • Through an EY network in over 150 locations across the world, connects companies globally and manages global immigration programs. Elizabeth is holds a Bachelor of Arts (University of Queensland), Bachelor of Laws (University of Queensland) and Master of Business Administration (Macquarie Business School) and is a Legal Practitioner, admitted to the Supreme Court of QLD and High Court of Australia. She is a member of QLD Law Society, Migration Institute of Australia and Institute of Chartered Accountants. In her down time, Elizabeth enjoys time with family and friends, especially over a delicious meal.


Daniel Gosewisch, General Counsel, The WorkPac Group
Daniel Gosewisch has spent 20 years in-house working across government, resources, retail, and general corporate sectors. He holds degrees in Law and Environmental Science from Griffith University, a Master of Laws from Queensland University of Technology, and is a Fellow of the Governance Institute. He joined WorkPac as General Counsel in May 2022 and also acts as Company Secretary. Daniel advises on commercial and legal matters across the labour hire, recruitment, training and services businesses operated by WorkPac. He also publishes regularly on associated legal topics (including as editor of lawofcontract.com.au) and undertakes pro bono work privately.