Practice Management
Common Practice Management Risks in Wills and Estates Practice
- Identification of common areas of risk in will drafting
- Impact of delay in preparing a will
- Implementing strategies when something goes wrong
- Issues when Court proceedings are necessary
- Recent cases
Presented by Anthea Kennedy, Partner, Bridges Lawyers; Accredited Specialist, Wills and Estates Law; Preeminent, Wills & Estates Litigation and Preeminent Wills, Estates & Succession Planning Lawyer and Market Leader, Wills & Estates Litigation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2023
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Practice Management
This program is based on NSW legislation
* 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
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Presenters
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.
Kim Boettcher, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Kim is a Barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney. Kim practises in Equity, Common Law, Protective and Guardianship Law, and in the Probate and Succession List. Prior to coming to the Bar, she practised as a Solicitor in commercial and civil litigation law in England and Wales, New South Wales and Queensland. More recently, she was a Solicitor at the Seniors Rights Service, an independent legal centre and regularly attended the UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing in New York as a civil society representative. Kim was appointed to the NSW Minister of Fair Trading's Retirement Villages Advisory Council in 2013 and also to the Minister's Expert Committee on Retirement Villages Standard Contract Terms and Disclosure Documents in 2011. Kim was a Member of the inaugural Legal Services Council in 2014 and reappointed from 2017-2020. She is a past Treasurer of the International Commission of Jurists Australia and was appointed to the NSW Bar Association’s Succession and Protective Law Committee in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
