Tailored for Family Lawyers gain your all-important ethics, professional skills, and practice management points so you are compliant for the year. Get your ethical questions answered relating to disclosure, conflict, and professional conduct. Then join a special masterclass for Family lawyers analysing the financial position and performance of businesses. In addition, don’t miss this one-off opportunity to improve your reading and understanding of financial accounts and records.
Chair:
Natalie Kam, Partner, McDonald Jackson; Accredited Specialist in Family Law
Professional Skills, Practice Management
3.00pm to 5.15pm PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: Understanding Financial Position and Financial Performance Masterclass
- Understand the financial position of your practice and a client’s business
- Understand the financial performance of your practice and a client’s business
- Understand common accounting concepts
- How to read financial statements
- How financial statements can be misleading if not properly understood
- Understand the key cause of business failure and the solution
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
2.00pm to 3.00pm Disclosure, Conflict and Conduct: 3 Major Responsibilities and Risks for Family Lawyers
Disclosure, conflict, and professional conduct questions arise very often for Family Lawyers. Foremost is the lawyer’s duty as an Officer of the Court. However, in the daily practice of law it’s easy to be side-tracked by the needs of clients and the adversarial process. In this session, we take the time to review core principles, examine the latest cases and provide practical tips and lessons for maintaining the highest standards of practice.
Presented by Marty Kavanagh, Principal, Kavanagh Family Lawyers
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presented by GiGi Visscher, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers; Chartered Accountant (Fellow)
Presenters
Natalie Kam, Partner, McDonald Jackson
Natalie is the lead partner in the Jackson McDonald family law team. Natalie is an accredited family law specialist with extensive experience in family law, representing clients in family and relationship law both nationally and internationally. Natalie is experienced in complex property proceedings including financial tracing, corporate and trust structures, contested inheritances, valuation and business issues and acting on behalf of banks, liquidators, creditors and corporations. Her practice includes advice on proactive structuring to protect multigenerational businesses and wealth and sits amongst one of Western Australia’s most preeminent private wealth teams. Natalie is a recognised industry leader in dealing with complex parenting cases and child related proceedings having represented clients in Australia and overseas, including in respect of applications to relocate overseas and international child abduction and recovery. She is experienced at mediation and is a qualified collaborative lawyer. Natalie is also trained in assisting clients encountering issues such as domestic and family violence and requiring assistance to obtain Family Violence Restraining Orders. Natalie was previously a key adviser to the Attorney General’s Family Relationship Advice Line and has assisted in the preparation of a number of submissions to government in the area of family law reform. Natalie is currently the Vice President of the Family Law Practitioners’ Association of Western Australia (FLPA) and Chair of FLPA’s Law Reform Subcommittee. Natalie currently sits on the Law Society’s Accreditation Committee.
Marty Kavanagh, Principal, Kavanagh Family Lawyers
Marty Kavanagh is the Principal of Kavanagh Lawyers. Marty tutored in ethics at Curtin university for several years in the early 2000s. Marty has a particular interest in Restraining orders; adoption; surrogacy; parental rights and presumptions of parentage; and family law issues relating to the LGBTIQ+ community. From 2012 to 2017 Marty wrote the WA restraining orders commentary for Thompson Reuters. In 2018, Marty was one of the lawyers who assisted GayDads WA in their legal submissions to the government's review of the Surrogacy Act 2008. In 2022 Marty was appointed to the WA Health Minister’s Expert panel on the review of the Surrogacy and Human Reproductive Technology acts. Marty is also the Honorary Consul of Ireland to Western Australia. Just to prove that life isn’t always about backing winners, Marty is a keen Fremantle Dockers fan.
GiGi Visscher, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
GiGi joined the bar in 2008. Since being called to the bar, she has principally practiced in commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on construction, property, equity, trade practices and insolvency matters. Before commencing her legal career, GiGi practiced as a Chartered Accountant, including as a forensic accountant and has an extensive commercial background, having worked in Singapore, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC. In addition to her Bachelor of Laws degree with Honours, GiGi holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University in Washington DC.
