Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is based on VIC legislation
Chair
Ric Birkett, Principal Lawyer, Aitken Partners
Practice Management & Business Skills
Managing Performance, Conduct, Illness and Injury in Your Practice – What Lawyers Must Know and How to Do It
Navigate the key concepts and how they impact the way you and your firm practice.
- Discrimination, safety, workers’ compensation and employment law risks around managing complex behaviours
- The right paper infrastructure and process
- Managing flexible work and the right to disconnect
- How to measure performance and what you need to do
- What is misconduct, serious misconduct and condonation
- How to manage illness and injury in your workplace
- What are the inherent requirements of the job and what do you do when someone is not fit for work?
Presented by Andrew Douglas, Managing Director, FCW Lawyers
Presenters
Ric Birkett, Principal, Aitken Partners
Ric Birkett is a principal lawyer in the Commercial and Property Section of Aitken Partners and has been in practice for over 25 years. His practice covers a broad range of corporate, commercial and property work in the commercial and not for profit sectors, including particular involvement in the aged care and retirement living industry (with recognition in the Health and Aged Care list in Doyle’s Guide). His work includes advising a range of clients in respect of governance, compliance, structuring and a range of commercial and property transactions including mergers and the purchase and sale of businesses and business interests.
Andrew Douglas, Managing Director, FCW Lawyers
Andrew is the Managing Director 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.
