Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Mandatory Ethics or Professional Conduct CPE
Ethics for IP Practitioners
- Sources of obligations
- Unique conflict of interest issues applying to IP practitioners
- Acting for or against friends, relatives and former clients or their rights
- Case studies, recent cases and the lessons learned
Presented by Glenn McGowan KC, Special Counsel, Gadens
Chair
Joanna Lawrence, Partner, Ashurst Australia; Leading Non-Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyers, Doyle’s List 2024
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPE hour in Professional Conduct or Ethics for Trade Marks & Patent Attorneys
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Joanna Lawrence, Partner, Ashurst AustraliaJoanna Lawrence is a Partner in the intellectual property team at Ashurst. Joanna's practice encompasses both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law, with a particular focus on trade marks, domain names, consumer protection law, copyright, design and food law. Joanna also has a strong interest in pro bono. In addition to assisting many of Ashurst's pro bono clients with trade mark and other IP matters, she is a member of the INTA Pro Bono Committee. Joanna is a regular presenter and chair at Legalwise intellectual property and food law seminars.
Glenn McGowan KC, Special Counsel, Gadens
Glenn McGowan KC is a Special Counsel at Gadens, with over 40 years of experience in practice, almost exclusively in the superior and appellate courts. He spent 27 years at the independent Bar, taking silk in 2004, before joining Gadens in 2015 as its inaugural Chief Counsel. His practice is heavily dominated by large intellectual property cases (patents, trade marks, copyright, confidential information, trade practices and designs), mostly in the Federal Court, involving all areas of technology, including chemistry, software, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, engineering, polymers, etc. Glenn is a qualified mediator and arbitrator. He appears in and advises in general commercial disputes in all courts, briefed by Gadens and other firms. He regularly appears in ranking publications (Doyles, etc) for contentious intellectual property, trade marks, patents, biotechnology and class actions.
