Tight on time but need those CPD points by 31 March? These three concise, one-hour sessions - accessible online or as a recording- offer you a chance to tackle your compulsory ethics, practice management, and professional skills. Tune in over lunch and tick off your requirements with ease as you unpack the ethics of billing for AI use, receive best practice tips for robust data breach and cyber-attack prevention and master the art of influencing and negotiation.
Attend the full series and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
The Ethics of AI in Your Practice (And Can You Really Charge When You Use ChatGPT?)
As AI tools like ChatGPT reshape legal practice’s, you now face a critical question: is it ethical to charge for services supported by AI? Dive into the ethical framework around AI billing, where transparency, value, and trust intersect. Be guided through disclosure best practices, client communication, and value perception, equipping you to ethically integrate AI into your legal practice.
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Kieran Smark SC, 153 Phillip; Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2024; Recommended Technology, Media & Telecommunications Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2023
- Understanding the role of generative AI in research, drafting, and client interactions
- Current and proposed guidelines for AI usage by legal practices
- Differences between ChatGPT and an AI behind your corporate firewall
- Transparency, disclosure requirements, and ethical obligations to the Court and your clients
- Strategies for communicating the value of AI-assisted work to clients
Presented by Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director, Law & Cyber Pty Limited
Presenters
Kieran Smark SC, 153 Phillip BarristersKieran Smark was admitted as a barrister in 1991 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2007. He practices in defamation and commercial law and has appeared in many trials and appeals in those areas. He also advises in relation to equity, property and intellectual property matters.
Simone Herbert-Lowe, Director, Law & Cyber Pty Limited
Simone Herbert-Lowe is the founding director of Law & Cyber, which provides legal services and risk mitigation advice to professional firms and other businesses. Simone provides cyber risk education seminars and advises companies impacted by cyber events, including acting as insurance claims advocate and in dispute resolution. Simone has written extensively in the area of cyber risk and professional responsibility, with articles featured in the Law Society of NSW Journal, the Australasian Law Management Journal and numerous Lawcover publications. She has presented on cyber risk for lawyers and conveyancers at ALPMA’s 2019 Annual Summit, the Law Society of NSW FLIP conference, and conferences and webinars hosted by Lawcover, PEXA, the Australian Institute of Conveyancers (NSW) and the Law Societies of Western Australia and Tasmania. Most recently she has written Cyber Risk for Lawyers, an online course providing one hour of CPD available at https://www.lawandcyber.com.au/cyber-cpd. Before founding Law & Cyber, Simone was the Senior Claims Solicitor and then Manager of Strategy and Innovation at Lawcover, where she also sat on the company’s cyber risk committee. During her time at Lawcover she managed more than 2000 notifications from insured law firms, and authored numerous articles and claims prevention courses for lawyers. Before joining Lawcover Simone worked in private legal practice for two medium sized firms specialising in insurance litigation. In 2016 Simone was awarded the Australian Graduate School of Management’s Wanbil Lee prize for ethical leadership in business.
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Data Breach and Cyber Attacks: Proactive Prevention & Effective Responses
In today’s tech-driven landscape, data has become “the world’s most valuable resource,” making law firms prime targets for cyber criminals. A data breach can have devastating consequences, but proactive prevention and a well-practiced response can make all the difference. Learn essential strategies for safeguarding sensitive information, responding effectively to cyber incidents, and protect you and your firm from becoming the next headline.
Haroon Hassan, Barrister & Mediator, List G Barristers; Recommended Technology, Media & Telecommunications Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2023
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
- Prevalence of data breaches and cyber-attacks involving Australian companies and law firms in particular
- The legal framework obliging law firms to take a considered approach to data collection, storage and security
- Data breach or cyber-attack: What is the typical legal and commercial exposure?
- Is my firm insured for data breach and cyber-attack?
- What to do in anticipation of a data breach or cyber-attack, the elements of a data breach response plan
- Case Study: HWL Ebsworth Cyber Security Incident
Presented by Mark Vincent, Principal, Spruson & Ferguson Lawyers Pty Limited
Presenters
Haroon Hassan, Barrister & Mediator, List G BarristersHaroon is an experienced and effective advocate. He works collaboratively with his instructors and clients to achieve their goals. He is often briefed to appear in superior courts and specialist tribunals in complex, sensitive and high-profile litigation. His clients include publicly listed corporations, governments, statutory authorities as well as private companies and individuals. He has acted for clients in trials, appeals, royal commissions, statutory inquiries, parliamentary inquiries, compulsory examinations and regulatory investigations. He is a nationally accredited mediator and welcomes briefs to mediate disputes in his areas of practice.
Mark Vincent, Principal, Spruson & Ferguson Lawyers Pty Limited
Mark is a Principal at Spruson & Ferguson Lawyers with more than three decades of experience in technology and intellectual property law. Mark litigates intellectual disputes and his advice on licensing, commercialisation, data protection, intellectual property law and strategy also provides clients with clarity and direction, often in complex areas of both law and technology. Mark advises clients on strategies to manage, commercialise and protect data assets. Mark’s expertise in the area of technology based commercial agreements, cloud computing and data protection is highly sought after by clients.
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Effective Negotiation and Influencing Skills
Negotiation influences every aspect of legal practice, from advancing client interests to navigating office dynamics. It’s more than just a conversation - it’s a pivotal skill that can shape outcomes for clients and cases alike. Make negotiation your most valuable asset with techniques to create win-win scenarios, influence decisions, and manage challenging conversations. Refine your playbook of strategies that will make an immediate difference in your legal practice.
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Using examples from negotiations Elise will assist you to:
- Prepare to persuade
- Move from combat artist to commercial strategist
- Use or lose the law as a negotiation tool
- Lean into your client’s negotiation prowess
- Achieve sustainable and practical outcomes
Presented by Elise Margow, Principal, Legally Speaking; Leading Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2018-2024
John N West KC, Mediator and Arbitrator, 7 Wentworth Selborne; Leading Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2023-2024
Presenters
John N West KC, Mediator and Arbitrator, 7 Wentworth SelborneJohn has maintained a wide-ranging practice throughout his career appearing in Courts of first instance, at intermediate and appellate level, and in the High Court of Australia. He has regularly appeared in both State and Federal Courts and tribunals in NSW and across Australia. While the bulk of his work over many years has been in the commercial area, he has also developed a substantial speciality in industrial law and employment law generally. In this latter area he has appeared in many leading cases involving the Australian mining industry, the transport industry, and also in the Waterfront dispute. John appeared in the HIH Royal Commission and also in the Glenbrook Rail Inquiry. His work in commercial arbitration includes the lengthy proceedings consequent upon the closure of the submarine re-fit program at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, and also in international arbitrations. He has also considerable experience in coronial inquiries involving, for example, the aftermath of a collapse in a metalliferous mine. For some 10 years John has practised in commercial mediation both as counsel and more regularly as mediator in a broad range of matters involving such diverse fields as alleged breaches of directors duties, disputes concerning franchise agreement and other contractual disputes of various types including financing contracts, employment contracts, leases, and building and construction contracts. John has been an active member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association over many years, culminating in his appointment as Regional Co-ordinator for the Asia Pacific region from 2011 to 2013. As well as Arbitration, John has recently been recognised in Doyles guides latest Leading Workplace Health & Safety Law Senior Counsel – NSW, 2019 and Leading Employment Law Senior Counsel – Australia, 2020
Elise Margow, Principal, Legally Speaking
Elise Margow, founder and principal, understands the commercial needs of a business, legally speaking. Having worked in the corporate sector for 13 years in telecommunications and financial services, Elise knows how legal departments function. This builds on her time in practice at various law firms. She has broad legal and business expertise, being an alumnus of Telstra Corporation Limited and Arnold Bloch Leibler as well as heading up legal teams. In addition to providing a wide range of legal advice to her clients and reducing the legal spend of clients substantially, she has contributed on credit and due diligence committees, is a director of two companies and has company secretarial experience. Elise is an experienced litigator and mediator who over the past 14 years has focused on alternative dispute resolution techniques to assist clients and disputing parties avoid lengthy and expensive court proceedings. She has successfully assisted both her own clients and disputing parties resolve complex disputes using the combination of her litigation and commercial experience together with her pragmatic approach to the resolution of disputes. As a nationally accredited mediator Elise specialises in mediations concerning banking and finance, corporate, commercial, industrial relations and major leasing disputes. Elise is an author of the LexisNexis Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents Sale of Goods, Employment, Banking and Finance and Guarantees and Indemnities sections. Clients gain the benefit of her capabilities in managing new market opportunities for increased revenue, innovative risk mitigation, achieving major cost reductions, negotiating million-dollar transactions and resolving deal breakers. Together with her associates, Elise is able to advise clients on the 'A to Z' of legal management, services and strategies. Elise is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and is registered as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia. She obtained her legal qualifications in South Africa and was admitted as an attorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa. Elise is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Elise was named by The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of the top 100 most passionate, powerful and provocative personalities of 2012.
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