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

Wanting to square away all your compulsory CPD points before the end of March? Attend these 3 all-encompassing hour-long sessions either online or on demand. They will fit perfectly into your busy schedule as you can have some lunch while you enhance your practice, ensure ethical compliance and polish your professional skills. WEB242N02Z

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Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills

 

This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

 

If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.

CPD Over Lunch, Ethics & Professional Responsibility: How (Un)Ethical Are You? Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Monday, 1 July 2024

How (Un)ethical are you? Gain insight into unconscious bias and its significant influence in the work environment and your client interactions. Learn how to confront these biases in the legal field with practical strategies for change and expand your ethical awareness.

Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility

This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

* 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:

Justine Anderson, Senior Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers; President, Women Lawyers Association NSW

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
How (Un)Ethical Are You? Overcoming Unconscious Bias

Join Barrister, Leah Marrone as she discusses what Unconscious Bias is and how it affects us in both our workplaces and our clients in our legal advice and representation. 

  • Examine how gender pay gap in the profession can be in part overcome by addressing unconscious bias
  • Receive practical strategies to help overcome unconscious biases, as Leah draws upon her own experience of utilising these strategies for structural change in the legal profession around sexual harassment and pay gap in particular
  • Explore lessons that could be learnt from Leah’s experience of over a decade of advocacy in this area

Presented by Leah Marrone, Barrister, Flinders Chambers; Respect@Work Council member, Law Foundation member, Immediate Past President of Australian Women Lawyers Ltd

Presenters

Leah Marrone, Barrister, Flinders Chambers
Leah Marrone is a past President of the Women Lawyer's Association of SA Inc., a role that she held for three years. Leah is on the Equal Opportunity Committee of the Law Council of Australia and has been advocating for strategies to address sexual harassment in the profession, including authoring a paper on this. Leah is also a member of the Alumni Council of the University of Adelaide. Leah has been a recipient of the Law Society of SA’s Gender Equity in Law Award and was last year named on the SA Women’s Honour Roll for her work and advocacy for women’s rights and other social justice causes.

Justine Anderson, Senior Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Justine Anderson is a civil litigation lawyer focusing on medical litigation and her practice includes gynaecological and obstetric cases, wrongful birth, cases involving pulmonary embolism, sepsis, adverse surgical outcomes and coronial inquires. Justine is the President of the Women Lawyers Association of NSW Involved since 2016, Justine is the Immediate past Chair of the Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers Diversity Group which aims to advance diversity and inclusion within the firm. Prior to joining Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers she worked in a number pathology laboratories and private hospitals, providing her with a unique set of problem solving skills when approaching medical and other legal matters.

 

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CPD Over Lunch, Professional Skills: Mediation-Tricks and Traps for Lawyers

Monday, 1 July 2024

Master the art of mediation preparation! Join us for expert insights on the Do's and Don'ts that can make or break your mediation outcomes. Acquire crucial negotiation skills to excel in the mediation process.

Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills

This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

 

* 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:

John N West KC, Mediator and Arbitrator, 7 Wentworth Selborne; Leading Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2023

Professional Skills
Mediation-Tricks and Traps for Lawyers
  • How best to prepare for mediations including getting the client ready
  • Who should be present at the mediation
  • Delivering a good opening statement
  • Negotiation techniques
  • What to expect in a private session
  • What is good faith negotiating
  • Documenting the Agreement
  • The benefits of face to face mediations as opposed to online

Presented by Robert Goldstein, Principal, Rob Goldstein Mediation; Nationally Accredited Mediator’ Accredited Specialist Mediator; Leading Mediator, Doyle’s Guide 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

Presenters

John N West KC, Mediator and Arbitrator, 7 Wentworth Selborne
John has maintained a wide-ranging practice throughout his career appearing in Courts of first instance, at intermediate and appellate level, and in the High Court of Australia. He has regularly appeared in both State and Federal Courts and tribunals in NSW and across Australia. While the bulk of his work over many years has been in the commercial area, he has also developed a substantial speciality in industrial law and employment law generally. In this latter area he has appeared in many leading cases involving the Australian mining industry, the transport industry, and also in the Waterfront dispute. John appeared in the HIH Royal Commission and also in the Glenbrook Rail Inquiry. His work in commercial arbitration includes the lengthy proceedings consequent upon the closure of the submarine re-fit program at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, and also in international arbitrations. He has also considerable experience in coronial inquiries involving, for example, the aftermath of a collapse in a metalliferous mine. For some 10 years John has practised in commercial mediation both as counsel and more regularly as mediator in a broad range of matters involving such diverse fields as alleged breaches of directors duties, disputes concerning franchise agreement and other contractual disputes of various types including financing contracts, employment contracts, leases, and building and construction contracts. John has been an active member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association over many years, culminating in his appointment as Regional Co-ordinator for the Asia Pacific region from 2011 to 2013. As well as Arbitration, John has recently been recognised in Doyles guides latest Leading Workplace Health & Safety Law Senior Counsel – NSW, 2019 and Leading Employment Law Senior Counsel – Australia, 2020

Robert Goldstein, Principal, Rob Goldstein Mediation
Rob has conducted mediations since 2008 as a principal of Rob Goldstein Mediation, a dedicated commercial mediation practice. In the 15 years since the change in his professional career from litigator to mediator, he has conducted close to 2700 mediations. Rob a Nationally Accredited Mediator and a Law Institute Accredited Specialist Mediator. Rob has been included on the Doyle’s List of leading mediators in Victoria in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. Prior to turning his focus to building my mediation practice, Rob practiced as a Law Institute Accredited Commercial Litigation Specialist. Rob sits on several panels of mediators, including the office of the Victorian Small Business Commission. Rob is briefed to conduct mediations in all commercial matters, with a specific emphasis on disputes in property, lease, franchising, defamation, testators’ family maintenance, consumer law and employment law areas. He conduct san even spread of court matters and pre-litigation disputes. Whilst Rob primarily practice as a facilitative mediator in exploring commercial outcomes for the parties, his personal approach is more interventionist as opposed to the traditional "whiteboard" mediator. With his background as an experienced litigator, Rob’s preference is to be consumed in the dispute with a view to achieving a commercial outcome. Rob also makes himself available to lawyers to present to them on how to best prepare for mediations and how to develop their negotiation skills.

 

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CPD Over Lunch, Practice Management & Business Skills: Legal Revolution: What does AI and New Technologies Mean for Your Practice?

Monday, 1 July 2024

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have raised concerns regarding their impact on various professional occupations- including lawyers. Despite the doomsday predictions, there are a number of key ways AI and new technologies can be implemented in your practice to excel. Attend and consider the consequences and affordability of these emerging technologies. 

Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Practice Management & Business Skills

This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories

* 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:

Kieran Smark SC, 153 Phillip; Recommended Technology, Media & Telecommunications Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2023

Practice Management & Business Skills
Legal Revolution: What does AI and New Technologies Mean for Your Practice?
  • The latest developments in AI and the tools available to lawyers
  • The risks, challenges and ethics of generative AI adoption
  • Principles of AI adoption and developing an AI governance framework

Presented by Lisa Fitzgerald, Partner and Co-Head, Digital Economy Practice, Lander & Rogers

Presenters

Kieran Smark SC, Barrister, 153 Phillip
Kieran was admitted as a barrister in 1991 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2007. He practices in defamation and commercial law and has appeared in many trials and appeals in those areas. He is the author of the upcoming third edition of Freedom of Information and Privacy in Australia.

Lisa Fitzgerald, Partner and Co-Head, Digital Economy Practice, Lander & Rogers
Lisa Fitzgerald is a partner in the Corporate practice at Lander & Rogers and co-head of the firm's Digital Economy practice. In addition to general commercial, corporate and regulatory work, Lisa specialises in technology, media, telecommunications, privacy, cyber security and intellectual property rights. Lisa’s practice covers all aspects of technology, media, telecommunications, data, privacy and intellectual property rights, with a focus on emerging technologies, data services and cyber security. With over two decades of experience as a leading lawyer at top tier firms, Lisa’s experience includes advising established global businesses and scale-ups in multiple sectors ─ from technology to financial services, wholesale and retail markets to the health sector, in Australia and the UK. Lisa's expertise extends to cross-border transactions and global expansion into domestic and international markets, and encompasses regulatory compliance (including the Consumer Data Right, the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme, Part IIIA of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) relating to credit reporting, prudential standards including CPS 234 and the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth)), Australian Consumer Law, corporate governance, directors' duties, product launches (including IoT), intellectual property, wholesale and retail supply. Lisa is a former High Court Associate to the Hon Ken Hayne AC KC, served as Acting Chief Privacy Officer for a major bank, is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and a Councillor on its Victorian State Council. Lisa also sits on the Media and Communications Committee of the Law Council of Australia and the CEDA Business Dynamism and Competitiveness Member Advisory Committee and has served as a non-executive director for a global software company.

 

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