This all-inclusive program will cover issues that all lawyers should be across when dealing with costs and clients. You will gain knowledge, insights and best practices to keep you abreast with your core CPD requirements. Learn why cost budgeting is so important. Know how to draft in an electronic environment and how to effectively resolve costs disputes in this exceptional and dedicated program.
Chair
Steve Lancken, Managing Director, Negocio Resolutions; Accredited Specialist in Mediation and Commercial Litigation; Costs Assessor
Professional Skills
Costs Recovery
- Registering your Costs Certificate as a judgment & when
- Pros and cons of the most used methods of enforcement
Presented by Patrick Ferguson, Solicitor & Notary Public, Costs Assessor & Review Panellist
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD hours including:
3 hours in Professional Skills
1 hour in Practice Management and Business Skills
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
*Original Content was created in 2023
Professional Skills
Effective Drafting in Costs Law
- How to draft an effective Bill of Costs
- Common pitfalls in drafting Costs Agreements
- Overview of costs assessment process
- Drafting in an electronic environment
Presented by Marina Dulhunty, Barrister, William Deane Chambers, Costs Assessor
Practice Management and Business Skills
Costs Budgeting and the Benefits to the Legal Profession
In this session you will examine and understand why the question of costs budgeting touches every firm in the efficient management of their practices.
Presented by Paul Averill, Senior Costs Consultant, Australian Legal Costing Group
Professional Skills
Costs Disputes
Presented by Charles Ackroyd, Principal, Pattison Hardman
Presenters
Steve Lancken, Managing Director, Negocio Resolutions
Stephen (Steve) Lancken is an internationally regarded mediator, trainer and coach. He teaches and commentates about negotiation and conflict resolution. He has a special interest in the way in which lawyers negotiate. Steve's dispute resolution work commenced in 1981 as a commercial mediator. He started mediating in 1990 and since his mediation practice became full time in 1999 has conducted more than 2,000 mediations. Notable areas of mediation specialty include major property and lease disputes, sports law, insolvency, telecommunications, native title, construction, insurance, and personal injury litigation. Steve is a Costs Assessor, Review Panellist and member of the Costs Assessors Rules committee. He sits on ACAT, the National Sports Tribunal and is a Personal Injuries Commission mediator. Steve has mediated with many of Australia’s leading lawyers and advises parties seeking to negotiate agreements in contentious and non-contentious circumstances.
Charles Ackroyd, Principal, Pattison Hardman
Charles began working as a Law Cost Draftsman and Cost Consultant in London in 1991 prior to moving to Australia in 2000 where he worked in house for a number of high-profile law firms and as an independent cost consultant. Together with Paul Taylor he manages Pattison Hardman. He has prepared bills of cost, objections, submissions and has conducted taxations across a multitude of jurisdictions in various courts in his almost 30 years in the costing field.
Patrick Ferguson, Solicitor & Notary Public, Costs Assessor & Review Panellist
Patrick has many years experience advising clients in a wide range of business law matters such as commercial leasing and sales/purchases of businesses and commercial litigation including bankruptcy and insolvency, debt recovery, contractual dispute, defamation, contested probate and family provision matters. Patrick is also a Supreme Court costs assessor and advises clients in relation to costs disputes. Patrick is also a notary public and provides a range of notarial services for for individual and corporate clients. Patrick has been a long time member of a number of NSW Law Society committees. Qualifications: admitted as a solicitor in NSW, High Court of Australia, England and Wales and Northern Ireland. Notary public. NSW Supreme Court costs assessor.
Marina Dulhunty, Barrister, William Deane Chambers
Marina Dulhunty has been in practice for 33 years both as a lawyer and a barrister. Prior to being called to the Bar 20 years ago she worked in house as Group Legal Advisor for Legal & General life of Australia Ltd and then had her own firm as a solicitor advocate. As a sole practitioner, she started off the NRMA case before handing it over to Gadens. Her practice at the bar can be best described as a generalist practice. She was appointed as a costs assessor in 2002 and is currently a senior costs assessor so she has seen many bills and not all of them have been good Marina is also an Arbitrator and mediator and she is currently appointed as a Local Court Arbitrator.
Paul Averill, Senior Costs Consultant, Australian Legal Costing Group
Having practiced in the field of costs law for 33 year in the UK, Paul has degrees in both Engineering and Law and is a Certified Legal Project Practitioner (being a member of the International Institute of Legal Project Practitioners). Since joining ALCG - The Australian Legal Costing Group in 2019, Paul has put his wealth of experience to good use, assisting lawyers and clients across all Australian jurisdictions, and is now well-versed in the nuances of the costing principles unique to the Australian legal system.
