Time is running out! Seize your last opportunity to fulfill your CPD requirements before the clock strikes 11:59pm on March 31st. Join a power-packed day with targeted sessions across property, contracts, succession, privacy, business and more. Designed to deliver essential knowledge and help you earn all your mandatory CPD, you’ll walk away with all the units you need in just one day!

Presenters

Lisa To, Partner, Bartier Perry
Lisa To is a Partner in the Private Clients Team at Bartier Perry Lawyers and has over 15 years' experience specialising in federal and state taxation, superannuation, trusts, estate planning and business succession planning. She is a SMSF Specialist Advisor T with the SMSF Association and a Chartered Taxation Advisor T (CTA) with the Taxation Institute of Australia. Lisa holds a double degree in law and accounting and Masters of Tax from the University of Sydney. Lisa sits on the NSW Law Society and Revenue NSW liaison committee and is actively involved with SMSF, tax education and promoting women leadership. She has significant experience in property development and business transactions involving SMSFs, trust structures and borrowing arrangements. Lisa manages all stages of tax and SMSF disputes, reviews, audits, objections, SMSF specific advice and private ruling applications with the ATO including seeking Commissioner discretion.


Caitlin Whale, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Caitlin Whale is a special counsel in the IPTech team at Baker McKenzie. She advises on technology, data issues, cybersecurity, privacy, procurement and telecommunications issues. Her practice focusses on complex commercial transactions, particularly those which involve technology, data or cybersecurity issues. Caitlin has practised as a technology and intellectual property lawyer in both Sydney and London for over 17 years.


Chris Wilkinson, Partner, Brown Wright Stein Lawyers
Chris is a Partner at Brown Wright Stein Lawyers. He is primarily a problem solver, helping clients to resolve issues in the following areas: insolvency and bankruptcy; commercial disputes; and taxation disputes. Chris advises directors and business owners on all aspects of the business life cycle including stakeholder disputes and director's duties and provides tailored insolvency and restructuring advice when things don't go as planned. He acts for and advises insolvency professionals, as well as creditors and debtors, in both personal and corporate insolvency matters, including in relation to voidable transaction claims.


Daniel Emmerig, Barrister, 9 Wentworth Chambers
Daniel accepts briefs to advise and appear in all areas of law, with a particular focus on commercial and corporate law. Prior to coming to the Bar, Daniel was an Associate in the Disputes and Investigations team at Allens. Daniel has experience in a range of areas including commercial law, class actions, corporations and insolvency, civil penalty proceedings, superannuation, and environment and planning law. Daniel also has experience acting in regulatory matters, including investigations and proceedings conducted by ASIC, APRA, ATO, the AFP and the former Department of Planning and Environment. Daniel is also currently studying a LLM in International Corporate and Commercial Law at King's College London.


Lauren Gidley, Legal Practitioner Director, Glass Goodwin
Lauren Gidley was admitted as a solicitor in July 2010. She holds a Masters of Applied Law, majoring in Wills and Estates, and in October 2017, she became an Accredited Specialist in Wills & Estates Law. Lauren has been working in the wills and estates area for over 15 years. She worked in various positions at the NSW Trustee and Guardian and a private trustee company, before moving into private practice in 2013. In March 2015, Lauren joined Glass Goodwin. She was appointed as a Senior Associate on 1 July 2017 and was named as a Rising Star in the Doyle's Guide - Wills & Estates Litigation, Sydney in 2017.


Rebecca Mulae, Consultant Facilitator, R3 Resolutions
Rebecca has over 20 years’ experience as a litigator and now brings her expertise to facilitating conclaves of expert witnesses. She chairs meetings of experts to ensure that they address the questions that are put to them by the parties' legal representatives, ensure each expert’s opinion is heard, areas of agreement are identified, and reasons for any differences of opinion are recorded in the joint expert report required by the Court. The final years of her practice as a litigator were as a partner of a prominent Australian law firm, where she managed and mentored a team of litigation lawyers. She has extensive experience in a variety of litigated claims with a focus on liability and professional indemnity matters, including claims involving medical professionals, owners and occupiers, construction companies, public authorities, councils, property managers, large scale corporations and small businesses. With extensive experience in litigated claims involving nervous shock, psychiatric illness, personal injuries, catastrophic injuries, birth injuries, economic loss, and property damage, she is able to understand, and be engaged in, the technical issues often discussed by the experts, yet able to facilitate the conclave with a focus on neutrality and timely production of the final joint report.


Ian McKnight, Special Counsel, Pobi Lawyers
Ian McKnight is a Practice Group leader and widely regarded as a doyen of strata law in New South Wales. His standing has been earned over the course of a 43 year career bestriding property law and strata management. Unique amongst property lawyers, Ian is a genuine specialist. Strata and community title law is not a part time pursuit, it forms the core of his day-to-day legal practice. He brings firsthand experience of the strata challenges to his advice from his time as a director of a corporate strata management firm. A sought after keynote speaker, Ian provides regular education sessions to the Real Estate Institute of Australia and on occasion to Strata Community Australia. He publishes widely on the subject of strata law. Ian counts among his clients strata managing agents, owners corporations, developers, building managers, property professionals, real estate investors and regulators.


Stephen Ipp, Barrister, Greenway Chambers
Stephen Ipp is a barrister specialising in arbitration, building and construction, commercial, corporations and insolvency law. He acts in a wide range of disputes involving shareholders, commercial fraud, real property transactions, complex recoveries for financiers and liquidators, engineering and infrastructure disputes, general building and strata defect claims. Stephen advises on trial strategy at all stages of the litigation process and works closely with instructing solicitors. He has more than 25 years of experience working with experts across a wide range of professional disciplines. Stephen is recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia 2021 to 2024 for his expertise in Insolvency and Reorganization Law, for Insurance Law in 2023 and 2024 for Banking and Finance in 2024. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (FCIArb).


Adrian Lawrence, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Adrian Lawrence is the Co-Head of Baker McKenzie's Global FinTech Initiative and also leads Baker McKenzie's Technology Media and Telecommunications Group in the APAC region. Adrian regularly advises clients across the sector, from established technology companies, to financial services institutions and early stage disruptors. He advises on a range of issues relevant to the FinTech space, including on privacy and data utilisation, regulatory compliance, commercial partnerships and product creation and distribution. Adrian also regularly assists large international clients with their requirements for entry into a range of APAC markets. He is a regular speaker on technology, privacy and digital media issues including as a lecturer in the postgraduate program at the University of New South Wales.


David Mackay, Barrister, PG Hely Chambers
With nearly 20 years combined experience as a barrister and solicitor, David advises and appears for corporate clients and individuals on instruction from top-tier, mid-tier law and boutique law firms, as well as in-, house legal departments. While he maintains a broad practice, David has acquired specialist knowledge and expertise in the areas of commercial law and equity, corporations law, insolvency and bankruptcy, real property and leasing law and commissions and inquiries. David's prior experience as senior associate at a top-tier law firm in Sydney extends to having acted in a large number of retail leasing and commercial disputes. Since being called to the Bar in 2007, David has continued to build on his expertise in this area. Matters in which he has advised on and appeared in include, acting for landlords and lessees in claims for relief against fortfeiture, specific performance and estoppel, options to renew, retail lease disputes in mediations in the retail tenancy unit, and disputes regarding rent reviews and outgoings. His extensive experience in commercial and leasing matters extends to appearing at trial and appellate level in various jurisdictions, including the Supreme Court of New South Wales and inferior courts, as well as the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (formerly the Administrative Decisions Tribunal). Complementing his practise as an accomplished advocate, David also appears on behalf of clients at mediations. David holds a Master of Laws, Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) and Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) from the University of Sydney. Prior to being called to the Bar, he gained considerable experience as a solicitor in the Commercial Litigation Department of MinterEllison for almost a decade, during which time he acted for clients in complex and high profile matters.


Anthea Kennedy, Partner, Bridges Lawyers
Anthea has been in practice as a solicitor since 1992. She has presented seminars and workshops in the areas of Wills and Estates law from 2002 onwards. Her work is mainly litigation, a high proportion of which is contested Probate, Family Provision cases and other Equity work together with estate planning advice. Anthea is an accredited specialist in Wills and Estates Law and is a past Chair of the Advisory Committee for Specialist Accreditation in Wills and Estates. Anthea is listed in the Doyle’s Guide of Leading Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyers 2023 as Preeminent in Australia and Market Leader in NSW. She is also listed as Preeminent in Leading Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyers, NSW in 2023.


Olga Ganopolsky, General Counsel - Privacy and Data, Macquarie Group Limited
Olga Ganopolsky is Macquarie Group’s General Counsel - Privacy and Data and is versed in the subject of data protection with extensive experience in detailed privacy policy challenges, law reform and ongoing management of legal and strategic issues. Much of Olga’s work involves implementing new technologies and addressing privacy requirements in an increasingly complex co-regulatory and sometimes contentious environment. Most recently this has included work on implementations of GDPR and the reforms to Security of Critical Infrastructure Act and related regimes, artificial intelligence, CPS 234, Covid-19 related matters, the Consumer Data Right and addressing cross border issues considering the Schrems II Decision of the European Court of Justice and the newly updated Standard Contractual Clause as approved by the Commission.


Max Bonnell, Partner, Henry Williams Lawyers
Max Bonnell is a partner in the Sydney office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques, where he specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration. His work, involves all forms of dispute resolution and spans a variety of fields, including telecommunications, contractual disputes, trade practices, professional negligence, Corporations Act disputes and credit regulation. Max is experienced in mediation and arbitration as well as litigation in each, of the major Australian jurisdictions. Much of his recent work has involved, disputes concerning complex technological problems and he appears, regularly as an advocate in international arbitrations, especially involving, energy and resources. Max recently authored the publication "When is an arbitration agreement 'inoperative'?" in the International Arbitration Law, Review. In November 2010, Max spoke at the 25th Anniversary, Conference of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre on "Trends, in Investment Arbitration ".


Therese Linton, Founder and Principal, Basalt Groupx
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.


Jennifer Shaw, Partner, Bartier Perry
Jennifer is a Partner in Bartier Perry’s Dispute Resolution & Advisory team with over 20 years of experience in the legal profession. Jennifer has in depth experience in professional disciplinary matters. She is a panel member of the Law Society’s Professional Conduct Advisory Panel and she acts for and advises solicitors who are subject to disciplinary complaints, show cause events, suspensions and related proceedings. She has also acted for and advised peak professional bodies in relation to the prosecution of disciplinary matters before specialist Tribunals in NSW and the ACT. In her broad disputes practice she has a particular focus on: elder financial abuse, civil recoveries arising from fraud related events, debt recovery, contract disputes, professional negligence, construction disputes, intellectual property disputes and family provision/estate disputes.