Thursday, 12 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management
This program is based on VIC legislation
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst; Recommended Leasing Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Practice Management
Privacy, Data and Technology Issues Relevant to Property Practitioners and Firms
- Refresher on privacy laws
- Privacy reforms and recent cases
- Cyber security related legislative reforms
- Penalties and compensation claims
- Best practices to protect your firm
- Managing data breaches and security risks
- Priorities for 2026
Presented by Iain McLaren, Special Counsel, HWLE Lawyers
Presenters
Iain McLaren, Special Counsel, HWLE Lawyers
Iain is a Special Counsel in HWL Ebsworth Lawyer’s national commercial group, based in Melbourne, and is Deputy Chair of HWLE's AI Governance Committee. Iain specialises in information technology law (Cyber, FinTech, MedTech, LegalTech, AI), privacy, information security, data protection, intellectual property, and general commercial contracting. Iain has over 20 years of experience in private practice and in-house. In addition to working in private practice, Iain previously worked in-house at ANZ Bank and Australia Post (including for Bank@Post) focusing on technology, privacy, data, and financial services matters, at and Hewlett Packard, and on secondment at Energy Australia.
Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst
Richard Brooks is a consultant in Ashurst's real estate practice. Richard has a broad real estate practice, including acting for REITs and other institutional property owners, developers and corporate and government real estate occupiers, and acting on real estate aspects of financing, M&A, infrastructure and energy and resources projects. Richard is experienced in acting on commercial property leasing (for landlords and tenants), sale and lease backs, real estate investment and real estate development. Richard is listed in Best Lawyers Australia 2025 in Real Property Law, Leasing Law and Government Practice.
