Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Ethics and Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Guy Betar, Principal Lawyer – Commercial, FCW Lawyers
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
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
Presenters
Guy Betar, Principal Lawyer – Commercial, FCW Lawyers
Guy Betar is a senior corporate and commercial lawyer specialising in technology and IP, with major transaction experience throughout Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. His experience and expertise encompasses a wide range of corporate and commercial business activities to include the handling of complex corporate transactions, drafting and analysis of all types of commercial agreements, technology and IT, corporate structuring, M&A and financing, all areas of IT/IP law, entertainment and creative industries, marketing, manufacturing, distribution, privacy and communications. Guy has specialist expertise in a number of these areas. Guy joined FCW Lawyers from an in-house national Legal Counsel role responsible for a Fortune 500 organisation’s Australian and New Zealand interests. He has held roles as director, executive manager and senior counsel for major IT companies, and as a commercial partner in Australian law firms.
Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers
Angus Macinnis is Director of Dispute Resolution at StevensVuaran Lawyers, a boutique commercial law firm in Sydney. Alongside his commercial dispute resolution practice, he has taught international sale of goods law at the University of Technology, Sydney, The University of Notre Dame Australia, and presently in the Thomas More Law School at the Australian Catholic University, where he holds the role of Legal Professional Mentor. He has also been invited to present lectures on the CISG for the international law practice course conducted by the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and is a former co-chair of the Section’s International Trade and Business Law Committee.
