Gain practical insights into recent developments in family law, executorship, and property law, including changes to leases and seller disclosure schemes. Learn strategies for managing client data ethically, preparing for commercial mediation, and maintaining financial health in small to medium-sized practices.
Peter Roney KC, Callinan Chambers
- Understand your obligations
- The ethical duty to safeguard client confidentiality and data integrity
- Assessing the risk levels associated with different types of data
- Review best practices for the ethical collection, storage, and sharing of client information
- Privacy, transparency and accountability
Presented by Nicole Murdoch, Partner, Thynne + Macartney; Recommended Intellectual Property Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2023
- Why commercial mediation demands a different playbook
- Mastering client expectations: a six-step framework that works
- Winning the mental game: turning challenges into advantages
- Developing a strategy: core principles, smart tactics, key decisions
- Leveraging your mediator: opportunities for strategic advantage
Presented by Peter Travis, Commercial Barrister and Mediator, Gibbs Chambers
Attend 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
- Business Plan...a few “really need to haves”
- Owners’ time management and productivit
- Business Development and choosing clients well
- Structure and impact of solicitor: owner ratio
- Budget/genuine profitability/ credit control/cash flow/liquidity
- Risk management requirements & similarity to business management best practice
- The Bottom Line...
- More “You and Family” time...
- Better professional satisfaction & financial rewards...
- Reduced stress...
- Greatly improved practice value on succession...
Presented by Rob Knowsley LLB., Legal Practice Improvement Advisor, Lawyers' Mentor, Managing Partner, Knowsley Management Services
Business Law Bundle
Secure all 10 CPD points with two of our bestsellers, delivered live online for maximum convenience! Start with the Contract Law Conference, where you’ll tackle key issues like frustration, termination, liability, indemnities, confidentiality, and e-contracts. Engage in real-time Q&A and discussions with peers (both in person and online) to explore effective solutions and manage risks.
Then, secure your mandatory ethics points with Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management for All Lawyers. Learn strategies for managing client data ethically, preparing for commercial mediation, and maintaining financial health in small to medium-sized practices.
Attend both sessions and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
These programs are applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
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10 Points in One Day Your Last Chance
Tight on time? Join us for an intensive, one-day CPD event tailored to help you meet all your requirements before the 31 March deadline. Covering 13 crucial areas of the law, and with focused sessions in ethics, professional skills, practice management, you’ll complete your points with valuable, applicable insights. Don’t let 31 March slip by and register now!
Attend and earn 10 CPD units including:
6.5 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.5 units in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on QLD legislation
Analysis of recent family law and property division cases
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- Who is entitled to apply for a grant of probate?
- What factors may prevent the appointee from assuming the office of executor?
- Intermeddling and its implications: what constitutes “acceptance” of the office of executor?
- How does the appointee renounce the right to probate?
- What to do when the appointee fails to apply for probate or renounce the role
Presented by Dianne Pendergast, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
- Rules relating to leases, including with respect to options and relief from forfeiture
- The enforceability of easement covenants
- The statutory seller disclosure scheme
- Change to the limitation period for actions brought based on a deed
- The abolition of the rule against perpetuity for trusts over land in Queensland and the introduction of a fixed perpetuity period
Presented by Robert Quirk, Barrister, Higgins Chambers
Chair: Peter Roney KC, Callinan Chambers
- Why commercial mediation demands a different playbook
- Mastering client expectations: a six-step framework that works
- Winning the mental game: turning challenges into advantages
- Developing a strategy: core principles, smart tactics, key decisions
- Leveraging your mediator: opportunities for strategic advantage
Presented by Peter Travis, Commercial Barrister and Mediator, Gibbs Chambers
Chair: James Harding, Legal Practice Director, Harding Property Law
Gain insights into cybercriminal tactics, their motivations, and effective prevention strategies. Key topics include:
- Why law firms and organisations are prime targets and the methods used to target them
- Strategies to prevent cyber-attacks and steps to take if an attack occurs
- Minimising mandatory data breach notifications and penalties
- Exploring your insurance options
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- Have the objects of Part 5.3A been achieved
- Abuse of process
- Report to creditor
- Have the creditors been misled
- Has a creditor or creditors been unfairly prejudice
- Related party creditors
- Administrator’s casting vote
- Is the deed contrary to public policy
- Is there a better return to creditors under the deed compared to a winding up
Presented by Mark D Martin KC, Level 10 Inns of Court, Recommended Insolvency & Restructuring Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Presenters
Genevieve Dee, Partner, Family & Relationship Law, Lander & RogersAccredited Family Law Specialist Genevieve Dee is a partner at Lander and Rogers and has worked exclusively in family law and has fifteen years’ experience. Genevieve specialises in all aspects of family law, including parenting and property matters, financial agreements, spousal maintenance and child support issues. Doyle’s Guide 2022 has recognised Genevieve as a Pre-eminent Family & Divorce Lawyer, Leading Parenting & Children’s Matters Lawyer and Recommended Complex and High-Value Property Matters Lawyer in Brisbane. In addition, Genevieve has been named as recommended Family & Divorce Lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 national listings.
Dianne Pendergast, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
Dianne Pendergast was admitted to practice law in 1986. Since then she has practiced predominantly in family law, wills and estates, child protection and domestic violence. Dianne was a partner in a boutique practice until 1992, when she was appointed as a registrar of the Family Court where she worked as a mediator, conciliator and conducted interim hearings for the next 14 years. In 2006 Dianne was appointed to the statutory position of Adult Guardian (Qld.). Dianne has practiced as a barrister for the last 13 years.
Robert Quirk, Barrister, Higgins Chambers
With over 25 years of experience across various legal domains, Robert Quirk has provided counsel to a diverse clientele, including major corporations, government departments, and local governments. His expertise spans contract, property, commercial, public/ administrative law, environmental law, and appellate work. Additionally, Robert has extensive knowledge in criminal and enforcement matters related to these areas. He is also a Defence Force reservist.
Rob Knowsley LLB, Managing Partner, Knowsley Management Services
Rob Knowsley has spent the 49-plus years since his admission as a lawyer in early 1975 working with growth-oriented legal practices in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He founded Knowsley Management Services (KMS) in early 1988. He is unashamedly passionate about assisting his fellow lawyers to build into their firms a strong ongoing capability to optimise their investments of money, education, experience and time, to produce proper profits, dramatically better profits than most assume possible. He is clear in his view that a profitable firm greatly increases options in terms of succession, a real problem for many partners in small-medium firms. Rob has a long track record of making vast improvements happen in relatively short periods of time in all manner of firms, and brings to his consultancy advice a wide experience from a range of legal roles, having practised as a Barrister and Solicitor, employed lawyer, partner and managing partner, sole practitioner, and in both private practice and Government. He has served on various State and Regional Law Society councils and committees, and Government committees, lectured and written widely on legal practice management, and is a skilled trainer and facilitator. Rob`s day to day contact with all manner of firms, especially those where he is retained on an annual basis as a practice coach, gives him a constantly updated flow of information about the changing practical problems the Legal Profession is facing. He has had significant consulting input into over 1385 legal firms, and greatly assisted his many thousands of seminar and workshop attendees. A significant part of every business day is spent advising lawyers by e-mail, by telephone, Zoom/Teams, or in person. Rob knows what`s needed, what`s possible, and exactly how to achieve it. His ground-breaking systems for planning and ensuring full utilisation of law firm human resources, developed originally in the late Eighties, have stood the test of time, being used to huge advantage in a multitude of firms to this day. Rob adheres fully to the Code of Ethics of the Institute of Management Consultants in Australia.
Peter Travis, Commercial Barrister and Mediator, Gibbs Chambers
Peter Travis is a Queensland barrister, mediator and California attorney who specialises in commercial disputes. He represents clients before all Australian courts and has a national mediation practice specialising in resolving civil disputes across a broad range of practice areas. Before joining the Queensland Bar in 2008, Peter was employed in the media division of a national firm of solicitors, and became a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He later joined the California Bar and practised as a trial attorney in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, Peter represented media clients in complex First Amendment, intellectual property and commercial litigation.
James Harding, Legal Practice Director, Harding Property Law
Starting his own practice Harding Property Law in 2022, James stands out in the Queensland property and development sector with his unique blend of entrepreneurial experience and legal expertise. His firm, established to provide strategic advice on a wide array of complex property-related issues, quickly became known for its practical solutions catering to both corporate and private clients. James's journey in the legal field is underpinned by his background as a small business owner and employer, bringing a rare combination of commercial insights and legal acumen to his practice. This blend proves invaluable in navigating the intricate landscape of property law and commercial transactions. Earlier in his career, while with a national firm, James represented a diverse range of clients including State Government bodies, national statutory organizations, and charitable institutions, skilfully managing their property transactional needs in Queensland. His responsibilities encompassed the acquisition and sale of businesses, corporate restructuring, and providing intricate titling and structuring advice. James's expertise also extends to handling COVID-19 related leasing issues, where he advised national shopping centre operators. His proficiency in Foreign Investment Review Board Approval, compliance, enforcement responses, and advisory on Duties and Australian Foreign Acquirer Duty, further solidifies his reputation as a leader in property law. With his team at Harding Property Law, James continues to deliver tailored and strategic legal solutions, demonstrating a deep understanding of both the legal intricacies and the commercial realities of property transactions.
Alex Tuhtan, Director, Shand Taylor Lawyers
Alex Tuhtan is the Director at Shand Taylor and leads its building and construction team. Alex specialises in preparing all types of construction contracts, preparing adjudication applications and responses, advising on licensing issues and all types of construction disputes. Alex has over 7 years’ experience in all courts and tribunals and regularly acts for developers, builders, subcontractors, construction consultants and other construction professionals. In 2020, Alex was listed as a recommended back-end construction lawyer on Doyle’s Guide and sits on the committee of the Commercial Law Association of Australia (Queensland Chapter). Alex frequently hosts presentations and workshops regarding construction law and presents externally for organisations such as the Commercial Law Association.
Karyn Reardon, Partner, Piper Alderman
Karyn Reardon has specialised in the resolution of large construction and engineering disputes since 1995. She has successfully facilitated the commercial resolution of a wide range of disputes using a variety of processes (including traditional court processes, arbitration, adjudication, mediation and others). As well as drafting and reviewing project documentation, Karyn regularly advises members of the construction and engineering industries on how legislative and other changes will affect their business. She has first-hand experience in the construction industry, having worked for one of Australasia’s largest rural construction companies. Karyn regularly delivers papers to construction industry bodies and at alternative dispute resolution forums. She has teaching experience with the Queensland University of Technology and has conducted onsite training for corporate and government clients. She is a graded arbitrator and an accredited mediator.
Mark D Martin KC, Barrister-at -Law, Level 10 Inns of Court
Martin KC practices in the following areas: commercial, property, insolvency, intellectual property and defamation. He was admitted as barrister in 1987 and Queen's Counsel in 2013. He is Honorary Counsel for the Queensland Reds and Wallabies. Mark is married with 4 children; boys aged 32, 31 and 27 and a girl aged 24. His interests include mountain bike riding and snow skiing.
Neil McGregor, Barrister, Brisbane Chambers
As a highly experienced barrister in Brisbane, Neil McGregor appreciates the challenge of family law trial work and advocacy. Neil was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 1974 before moving to Australia. In Queensland, he was admitted as a solicitor in 1980, and then a barrister in 1984. He is a nationally accredited Mediator, a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner (R1005156), and an Arbitrator under s.10M of the Family Law Act 1975. Whilst specialising predominantly in the field of Family Law for more than 25 years, Neil's career includes a wide range of disciplines including drawing Wills and contracts; conveyancing and complex commercial transactions; criminal work (trial and appellate); personal injuries; and civil, commercial and property litigation. Throughout his career, Neil has contributed to a number of publications such as Butterworth's Court Forms and Pleadings Queensland, and was a reporter for the Queensland Reports. He regularly presents and speaks at specialist legal conferences and seminars on the many facets that make up Family Law.
Peter Roney KC, Callinan Chambers
Peter Roney KC, Callinan Chambers Peter Roney's professional practice has been both broad and focused. He mainly practices as Kings Counsel in commercial litigation but has been included for the past decade in Doyle’s guide as one of the top 4 leading Queensland King’s Counsel the areas of employment, industrial relations and workplace safety matters in Queensland. He is a Committee member Law Council of Australia Insolvency and Restructuring Committee Qld. He has represented the Qld Bar on the Law Council of Australia's Equal Opportunity Committee for more than 5 years. He has specialised in advocacy in commercial litigation, corporate management, body corporate and community management litigation, employment, industrial relations and workplace safety , mining, coal seam gas related litigation, Coronial Inquiries and Inquests particularly involving management system failures mechanical and engineering failures, major building and construction and engineering disputes, Peter has acted for and advised clients operating in the coal, gas petroleum and metallurgical industries, including Ministers. He sits and has sat as a member of both the Queensland and NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunals particularly in the Human Rights division.
Nicole Murdoch, Partner, Thynne + Macartney
Nicole is a Partner at Thynne + Macartney and leads the firm’s IP, Technology, Cyber, and Privacy Law practice group. She provides advice on a wide range of legal matters including Intellectual Property litigation, covering trade mark, patent, copyright, and domain name disputes, as well as related issues such as misleading and deceptive conduct, confidential information, and passing off disputes. She also acts in cyber matters to protect confidential information and trade secrets, and acts in fraud cases. Additionally, she provides Privacy Act advice, assists clients with data breach cases, advises on mandatory data breach notifications, and prosecutes insider threats. As a qualified Lawyer, Electrical Engineer, and Trade Marks Attorney, Nicole’s diverse qualifications and practical experience enable her to fully understand the intersection of law, technology, and business. This allows her to provide advice that is both commercially sensible and technically practical. Before her legal career, Nicole spent a decade in the IT industry. She has held key roles in industry organizations, including the Australian Information Security Association, auDA and the Queensland Law Society Cyber Security working group. She is an AICD Graduate. Nicole has been recognized as a Leading Queensland Intellectual Property Lawyer in the Doyles Guide for the years 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2018.
Elizabeth Le, Director, Global Immigration, Ernst and Young
Elizabeth Le is a Director in EY’s People Advisory Services practice, based in Brisbane, with over 15 years of experience in Australian immigration law. She assists multinational corporations and individuals across industries such as Mining, Financial Services, Health, Manufacturing, and Aviation. As the child of refugees who fled the Vietnam War, Elizabeth understands the transformative impact of immigration and brings a human-centric approach to her work. Elizabeth specialises in employer-sponsored migration, offering strategic advice to businesses from small enterprises to global corporations. Her expertise includes developing global immigration solutions, compliance strategies, and operational efficiencies for complex, mobile workforces. She also advises on immigration programs involving home and host jurisdictions and manages global immigration programs through EY’s network in over 150 locations. Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (University of Queensland) and an MBA (Macquarie Business School). Admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia, she is a Legal Practitioner and a member of the Queensland Law Society, Migration Institute of Australia, and Institute of Chartered Accountants. In her downtime, Elizabeth enjoys quality time with family and friends, especially over a delicious meal.
Daniel Gosewisch, General Counsel, The WorkPac Group
Daniel Gosewisch has spent 20 years in-house working across government, resources, retail, and general corporate sectors. He holds degrees in Law and Environmental Science from Griffith University, a Master of Laws from Queensland University of Technology, and is a Fellow of the Governance Institute. He joined WorkPac as General Counsel in May 2022 and also acts as Company Secretary. Daniel advises on commercial and legal matters across the labour hire, recruitment, training and services businesses operated by WorkPac. He also publishes regularly on associated legal topics (including as editor of lawofcontract.com.au) and undertakes pro bono work privately.
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