10 hours, 10 CPD points and 12 exceptional legal experts presenting on 12 different areas of law including your mandated core areas of ethics, professional skills and practice management, and all in one day. Plus, all in time for the 31 March CPD deadline. You really can’t ask for more. Catch up on new compliance regimes, new legislation, new cases and new strategies. This one day 10 Point Conference has it all for you. You will catch up on everything from property, wills, trusts and contacts law, from franchising, insolvency, employment, AML, directors’ duties to mediation skills and the new world of updated privacy law, digital law and AI.

Presenters

Tasman Ash Fleming, Barrister and Mediator, Svenson Barristers
Tasman is a Barrister and Accredited Mediator NMAS. In November 2021 Tasman Completed the Oxford Program on Negotiation at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Tasman offers commercial and independent experience in all mediations including commercial, bankruptcy, property and wills and estates. Immediately prior to coming to the bar Tasman worked as a solicitor advocate in Government where he gained experience in Court advocacy, including preparation of briefs and giving complex legal advice on urgent matters. Prior to joining the public service, Tasman was in private practice at a boutique firm and acted in a range of matters including Property Law, Bankruptcy, Probate & Wills/ TFM and Commercial Litigation and appeared in the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, Federal Magistrates’ Court and VCAT. Tasman is currently an adjunct lecturer in the GDLP at the College of Law Victoria where he also runs advocacy and NDR workshops as part of the lawyer’s skills component of the GDLP. Subjects taught include Civil Litigation, Commercial and Corporate, Property Law, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Administrative Law, Consumer Law, Wills and Estates, Banking and Finance Practice In 2022 Tasman was appointed Teaching Associate at Monash University: tutor in Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Trusts. In 2020 at The Australian Catholic University Melbourne (ACU) Tasman was lecturer-in-Charge Evidence and tutor in Torts, Land and Family Law.


Bree Ridgeway, Barrister; Jarndyce Chambers
Bree has a general commercial and common law practice, with a focus on Wills and Estates. Prior to coming to the Bar, Bree was Associate to His Honour Justice Moore. Bree assisted His Honour in complex estate disputes in the Trusts Equity and Probate List and a broad range of trials in the Common Law Division. Before her associateship, Bree was an Accredited Specialist in Wills & Estates at Moores. As a solicitor, Bree worked in contested estates, including constructive trust claims, executor removal applications, testators family maintenance proceedings and judicial advice applications. Bree has a Master of Bioethics, and is completing her PhD in Bioethics on the relationship between decision making capacity and euthanasia. She teaches Medical Ethics at Monash University and sits on the Human Research Ethics Committee at Walter + Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.


Luke Virgona, Barrister, Dawson Chambers
Luke Virgona practices in a wide range of commercial litigation, with a particular focus on property law. He is a co-author, along with Justice Croft and Robert Hay QC, of the recently published 4th edition of Commercial Tenancy Law, and of the Retail Leases Victoria loose-leaf service. Luke is also an Associate of the Charted Institute of Arbitrators. Before coming to the Bar, Luke was the Senior Associate to the Honourable Justice Croft of the Supreme Court of Victoria and, prior to his time at the Court, spent eight years as the owner and operator of a successful food retail business in South Melbourne.


Laura Young, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
Laura Young specialises in on a broad range of commercial matters ranging from strategic transactions (acquisitions & disposals, joint ventures, restructures, partnerships and shareholders arrangements) to all aspects of daily commercial operations (with a focus on the preparation, interpretation and negotiation of a broad range of commercial contracts such as confidentiality arrangements, tenders, subcontractor arrangements, heads of agreement, supply & procurement arrangements, sponsorships, consultancy agreements, terms & conditions / credit applications, manufacturing and distribution arrangements). Laura is also a member of the firms' Competition and Consumer team and has a particular interest & expertise in the Australian Consumer Law, including advising on consumer guarantees, the unfair contract term regime, misleading and deceptive conduct and unconscionable conduct. She also has a great deal of experience advising on corporate governance matters, particularly for private and not-for-profit entities. Laura has been placed on a number of secondments with major firm clients, including a long-term appointment as Acting General Counsel of a major ASX listed client. Her time in-house played a key role in the development of both her legal skills as well as her practice style. Laura credits her ability to provide her clients with practical solution based advice with a view of achieving a satisfactory commercial outcome to her time in-house.


Lizia Lim, Partner, Aitken Lawyers
Lizia Lim is an Accredited Specialist in Wills & Estates, a Doyles Guide ‘Recommended Lawyer’ in both Wills & Estates (estate planning) and Estate Litigation and a member of the global Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). She practices exclusively in the area of Wills and Estates incorporating estate and trust litigation, estate planning, probate and estate administration, superannuation planning and disputes, and VCAT Guardianship List disputes regarding the financial and personal affairs of a living person who has lost capacity, such as disputes over powers of attorney, financial administration and accommodation/care of the person.


Karen Mak, Barrister, Svenson Barristers
Karen Mak brings a broad range of skills and experience to the Bar and accepts briefs in commercial law (specialty is intellectual property), real property law, and sports law. She is a trade marks Attorney and a Nationally Accredited Mediator. Karen holds a Juris Doctor from Monash University (awarded the Post Graduate Prize for Intellectual Property), an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from the University of Oregon. Karen is admitted to the California State Bar. In addition to her work at the Bar, Karen is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School, where she instructs Juris Doctor students on the principles of contract law. Karen is also a competitive tennis player and a chair umpire and line umpire for Tennis Australia. She is a member of ANZSLA, the sports law association.


Andrew Douglas, Managing Principal, FCW Lawyersx
Andrew is the Managing Principal of a workplace law firm that practices nationally. He was previously the National Head of Workplace Law at Macpherson Kelley, a member of the executive and provided people training across the firm. Andrew acts for national professional services firms, food manufacturers, the education sector and Local Government and a range of other businesses. He chairs and speaks at Master Classes across Australia on topics ranging from safety law, performance management, managing mental health, wellbeing, industrial relations, investigations and return to work. He is the editor in chief and principal author of the national safety magazine, 'Health & Safety Consultant', a monthly publication, and was previously the editor and principal author of the 'OH&S Handbook'. Andrew regularly undertakes investigations and reviews and also engages others to undertake investigations/reviews - sometimes under privilege sometimes not. Andrew's team live and work up the eastern seaboard. FCW is a semi-virtual law firm with a focus on client experience rather than physical presence and have all worked with Andrew at Macpherson Kelley.


Kelly Dickson, Managing Principal Lawyer, Dandenong, Macpherson Kelley
Kelly Dickson’s love for the law dates back to her school days when she would spend her school holidays in the local courts soaking up the stories and the atmosphere. Now the real life application and tangible outcomes from her work keep the passion burning. A practical thinker, Kelly provides speedy, straight forward yet solution-oriented advice to her clients. She trusts her gut and never loses track of the end game, getting maximum results for her clients. Understanding the dynamic nature of the goods and services industry, combined with knowing the legal requirements of bringing their ideas to life enables Kelly to provide immediate advice that reduces risk and doesn’t hold up the process. It’s knowing her role in the process and the best course of action that helps set her apart.


Ian Upjohn KC, Howells' List Barristers
Ian Upjohn was called to the Melbourne Bar in 1993 and specialises in commercial law, equity and trusts, disciplinary and other tribunals and alternative dispute resolution. Ian is a co-author (with M Colbran QC) of Pleadings in Butterworths Court Forms, Precedents and Pleadings (Victoria) and a Contributing Author to Palmer on Bailment (Third Edition).


Dudley Kneller, Partner, Gadens
Dudley has more than 18 years' experience advising national and multi-, national corporates on a range of commercial, regulatory and specialised technology matters. Throughout his career, Dudley has advised a variety of clients on major technology arrangements with companies including Ricoh, AAPT, Telstra, Logica, Wipro, CSC, Brennan IT, IBM, HP, Accenture and Datacom. His experience also includes advising a range of technology suppliers on the provision of managed services, hosting, maintenance and support and product and service supply solutions to medium and large Australian-based corporates and government clients. Additionally, Dudley advises on niche areas of law including privacy law, marketing laws, cyber risk, data security and cyber insurance, including both commercial aspects and legal/regulatory compliance. Dudley is recognised in the Doyles Guide, 2016 listing of leading Melbourne Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers.


Sam Kingston, Partner, Maddocks
Sam specialises in insolvency and restructuring, working with clients in all aspects of external administrations, security enforcement and insolvency dispute resolution. He has acted for clients in a wide range of industries in large scale court proceedings involving complicated insolvency issues and Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) claims. Sam is recognised as a recommended lawyer for Restructuring & Insolvency in Legal 500 Asia Pacific Guide, leading Insolvency and Reorganisation lawyer in Best Lawyers Australia, recommended lawyer for Insolvency & Restructuring in Doyle’s Guide and recommended lawyer for Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution in Doyle’s Guide.


Grant Lubofsky, Barrister, Young’s List
Grant Lubofsky is a barrister at the Victorian Bar and signed the Bar Roll in 2017. He has a broad commercial practice and appears in a range of commercial matters (including contract, corporations, insolvency and insurance matters) as well as equity, trusts and property matters. He regularly deals with issues of privilege of the kind being discussed today. Before coming to the Bar, Grant practiced as a solicitor in the commercial disputes and insolvency teams at Minter Ellison for several years, and more recently was the Senior Associate to the Justice Almond at the Commercial Court of the Supreme Court. Grant also teaches in corporations, trusts and property law at Monash University and has had papers published in a number of journals.


David Roberston KC, Chapman’s List
David Robertson KC was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 1 April, 1981. Employed by Corr & Corr as a Solicitor and then as an Associate and then Senior Associate from 1981 to 1985 working mainly in Banking, Finance and Commercial Litigation. Signed the Roll of Counsel of the Victorian Bar on 23 May, 1985. Practises mainly in Commercial Law, including Banking, Finance, Securities, Consumer Credit, Trusts and Superannuation and also Constitutional Law, Equity, Company Law, Administrative Law and Professional Negligence. He was for many years a Member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Royal Children’s Hospital and a Senior Honorary Fellow and Part-Time Lecturer in Finance Law, University of Melbourne and also the author of the Chattel Securities Chapter of Lexis Nexis, Court Forms Precedents & Pleadings — Victoria.


Allison McLeod, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
Allison is a corporate and commercial lawyer with a particular interest in franchising. She has extensive experience advising franchisor clients in all manner of franchising related issues – from providing advice about Australian market entry and the establishment of franchise networks in Australia, through to acting on sales/acquisitions and advising on dispute resolution. Allison’s experience also includes advising on, and assisting clients with, international expansion. In addition to franchising, Allison regularly advises on competition and consumer law issues, including reviewing contracts in the context of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), assisting clients in dealings with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, conducting competition and consumer law training and considering and advising on supply and pricing issues. Some of Allison’s broader commercial experience includes drafting and negotiating contracts, assisting clients with intellectual property protection and implementing structural changes, reviewing and drafting standard form documents and acting on private M&A transactions. Allison has been named in Best LawyersTM Australia for Franchise Law.