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 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?)
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
- How AI is being used in legal research, drafting, and court documents
- Supreme Court Practice Note SC GEN 23: Use of Generative AI in legal practice
- Recent cases where solicitors were referred for investigation after submitting AI-generated errors to the court
- The difference between ChatGPT and AI operating behind a 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 principal and founder of Law & Cyber, which offers cyber risk advisory services including legal advice, cyber risk management, and online and in-person cyber resilience education. She is also a recognised expert on legal professional responsibility having given expert written opinion in Supreme Court proceedings. Simone is passionate about protecting Australians from cybercrime and is a thought leader in the area of professional responsibility and cyber risk. She has published over 40 articles in professional publications including for the IEEE, the Law Society of NSW Journal and the Law Council of Australia’s Law Management Hub. Simone’s training courses have been endorsed or distributed by the Legal Practitioners Liability Committee, PEXA, the Law Society of South Australia, and the Australian Institute of Conveyancers. Since March 2020, over 10,000 lawyers and law firm employees have completed Law & Cyber’s specialist cyber education programs. Prior to founding Law & Cyber Simone was Senior Claims Solicitor and Manager, Strategy & Innovation at Lawcover. In 2016 Simone was awarded AGSM’s Wanbil Lee Prize for Ethical Leadership in Business and in 2022 she was named Innovator of the Year at the Lawyer's Weekly Women in Law Awards where she was also a finalist in the Thought Leadership category. Find out more here.
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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. Elise is an experienced litigator and mediator who over the past 16 years has focused on alternative dispute resolution techniques to assist clients and disputing parties avoid lengthy and expensive court proceedings. As a nationally accredited mediator Elise specialises in mediations concerning banking and finance, corporate, commercial, industrial relations and major leasing disputes. Since 2018 she has been recognised by Doyles Guide as a leading mediator in Victoria. Most recently Elise founded Confidentially Speaking a company that specialises in enhancing clients’ negotiation capabilities through expert training and support. 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 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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