Jumpstart your understanding of stress and your life inside and outside of your legal career and consolidate your stress management skills with a successful wellness coach. Gain tools to promote work-life harmony and strategies to protect your mental and physical health.

Presenters

Katie Innes, Director, Bradley Allen Love Lawyers
Katie Innes is an experienced corporate lawyer who regularly advises a range of private companies and individuals, insolvency practitioners, industry peak bodies, co-operatives, associations and local governments on a broad range of commercial issues. Katie is a New South Wales Law Society Accredited Specialist in Business Law. Katie works closely with clients on the establishment and commercialisations of business ventures including the associated corporate governance, business structuring and ownership, succession planning, intellectual property considerations and capital raising. Katie's recent focus has been: assisting clients to find the most suitable business structure for their new and existing businesses to increase tax effectiveness and to create a workable succession plan; assisting clients with capital raising to fund business ventures including the offer of shares, debentures, units and convertible notes; and assisting private companies with major business acquisitions and disposals including the structuring, documentation and completion of those transactions. Katie's analytical and problem solving skills enable her to provide practical advice to her clients to achieve commercial resolutions in the best interests of her clients.


Lara Wentworth, Wellness and Performance Coach
Lara is a certified coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) PCC level. She’s a professional performance, leadership and mental fitness coach and former law partner. She is passionate about helping lawyers and legal teams to develop their leadership and build their resilience and wellbeing so they can become high performers and meet the challenges and pressure of work and life to achieve their potential. Lara is a co-founder and director of a global coaching firm called Coaching Advocates. Coaching Advocates is a team of experienced lawyers turned professional coaches dedicated to helping individuals and organizations excel both professionally and personally. Through our coaching, consulting, facilitation, and training services, we help law firms unlock the potential in their people and help lawyers achieve success on their own terms.

Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks

This lunchtime series will ensure you walk away with holistic tools to enhance your legal practice and you will gain your compulsory CPD points in a trio of practical sessions. Over your lunch break, refresh your understanding of conflicts of duty and following competent instructions, analyse the balancing act between being a legal and communication counsel and evaluate tools to cultivate a healthy legal life.