Chair
Diane Skapinker, Principal, Skapinker Law; Leading Property & Real Estate Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2022-2024
Practice Management & Business Skills
Cybersecurity for Conveyancers: Protecting your Practice
- Current trends in cyber fraud: Where are businesses most vulnerable in 2025?
- Risks of fraud and targeted scams to be aware of and how good internal controls can limit risk
- How AI is influencing the current landscape of cyber fraud
- Cybersecurity frameworks to be familiar with and how they can help you understand and remediate your key risks
- How to speak with your IT suppliers about Cyber to make sure you are getting the services you need to protect your business
Presented by Michael Gray, Partner - Forensic Technology, eDiscovery and Cyber, McGrathNicol
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Practice Management & Business Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Diane Skapinker, Principal, Skapinker Law
Diane works on her own account as a principal of Skapinker Law as well as consulting to the Ashurst real estate group where she specialises in property developments, strata and community titling, acquisitions, disposals, leasing and the property aspects of telecommunications and infrastructure projects. Diane was formerly an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney lecturing in Real Property, Conveyancing and Equity and is a member of the NSW Law Society’s Property Law Committee and its subcommittee responsible for drafting the NSW standard form contract for the sale and purchase of land. Diane is recognised as a real estate lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific, Doyle's Guide and Best Lawyers Australia.
Michael Gray, Partner - Forensic Technology, eDiscovery and Cyber, McGrathNicol
Michael is a highly respected technology specialist with more than 15 years of experience in Computer Forensics, Technology Investigations, Information Management and Electronic Discovery. He partners with clients to proactively and reactively manage technology and information risk and prides himself on cultivating trusted relationships which are underpinned by a collaborative and personalised focus. He has led a broad range of matters including engagements for Royal Commissions, Class Action and Regulatory proceedings. He provides advice on high quality end-to-end forensic and electronic discovery matters, intellectual property theft and employee misconduct investigations, cyber-fraud and security breaches and remediation works. He has also led the complex IT and technical management for some of Australia’s largest restructuring engagements including large scale transformational/IT change projects. As an expert in his field, he has been engaged as an Independent Forensic Expert in multiple proceedings in the Supreme and Federal Courts of Victoria and New South Wales. Michael works with clients to implement multiple leading edge technologies that help drive efficiencies in order to analyse, manage and resolve matters.
