10 Points in One Day: Your Last Chance
Issues covered include: property law, tax law, family law cases, estate disputes, professional courtesy, healthy mindset, making, accepting and rejecting offers
Description
This is it! You are down to the wire and you need to look no further. If you have left it to the last minute, do not despair. All your CPD points are taken care of right here. Featuring 10 timely topics hand-picked to cover some of the most crucial areas for commercial lawyers, you’ll gain all the CPD you need and bolster your practice in one efficient, information-packed day.
Attend and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
Session 1
Property. Tax, Wills & Estates and Family Law
7.30am to 8.15am: Property Law: Developments Over the Last 12 Months
- Strata law update
- Leasing update
- Conveyancing update
- Cladding: new regulations and developments
Presented by Gregory Sirtes SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
8.15am to 9.00am: Tax Law Issues Affecting Property Transactions
- Phoenixing, illegal phoenixing and plain bad luck
- Current property issues for GST and income tax
- The latest on land tax and duty
- Recent cases
Presented by Heydon Miller, Barrister, Orange Chambers
9.00am to 9.45am: Family Law Case Rundown
- Decisions and trends at appellate level
- Update on relevant full Court decisions
- Key cases and updates
- Merging contributions and discretionary failure
Presented by John Shaw, Barrister, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers
9.45am to 10.30am: Estate Disputes Case Update: The Key Decisions You Need on Your Radar
Expand and engage your knowledge base by focussing on the most significant cases that could impact your clients in the future with this practical session which will look at the emerging issues and crucial updates you need in this area.
Presented by Louise Goodchild, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
10.30am to 10.45am Morning Tea
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers
Chair: Alexandra Sarmed, Partner, Kingston Fox Lawyers
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
10.45am to 11.45am: Written and Unwritten Rules of Professional Courtesy
- Solicitors ethical obligations: professional courtesy
- Is aggression professional courtesy?
- Negotiate and communicate to achieve the best results for clients and firms
- How to manage difficult people
Presented by Louise Mathias, Barrister; Nationally Accredited Mediator, FDRP, Collaborative Coach, Family Law Arbitrator, Elizabeth Street Chambers
Practice Management & Business Skills
11.45am to 12.45pm: Promoting a Healthy Mindset for Your Practice
- Strategies to increase and improve confidence and resilience
- Dealing with difficult clients/opposing practitioners
- Having challenging conversations
- Stress and mental health management
- Effective communication strategies
Presented by Lara Wentworth, Partner, Madison Marcus Law Firm
Professional Skills
12.45pm to 1.45pm: Making, Accepting and Rejecting Offers: Achieving the Most for Your Client
When a dispute arises, the strategy behind when and how to make an offer, or when to reject one, is critical.
- The making and responding to offers: dos and don’ts
- Negotiating in ‘good faith’: how to make sure your negotiations meet the benchmark
- Offers of compromise and Calderbank offers: what they should say to give your client the best cost protection
- What is the lawyer’s role in giving advice about offers? Making sure you stay within your boundary
- Framing offers to best achieve a settlement
- The bargaining dance: how to make sure you are in step!
- What if you don’t really want to settle?
Presented by Steve Lancken, Director, Negocio Resolutions
1.45pm to 2.15pm Lunch
Session 3
Commercial Law
Chair: Geoffrey Baldwin, Special Counsel, Stacks Champion
2.15pm to 2.20pm Opening Comments by the Chair
2.20pm to 3.05pm: Privacy in a Commercial Context
- Understanding your client's business
- Compliance and impact of failure
- Implications for contracts
- Due diligence in M&A transactions
- Governance
Presented by Fred Chilton, Special Counsel, Toomey Pegg Lawyers
3.05pm to 3.50pm: Franchising: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know
- Analysis of the latest cases and legislative developments, including an update on the Parliamentary Inquiry into Franchising
- Key considerations, tips and best practices related to franchise agreements
- Issues arising out of the transactional stage of franchising
- Protecting a franchisor in setting up a franchise
- Advising franchisees when purchasing a franchise
- Important issues arising during the lifetime of a franchisee/franchisor relationship
Presented by Racha Abboud, Principal Lawyer, Macpherson Kelley
3.50pm to 4.05pm Afternoon Tea
4.05pm to 4.50pm: Key Developments in Consumer and Competition Law
- Consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms and renewed focus on green claims
- ACCC enforcement and compliance priorities 2020
- Increased investigatory powers and penalties
- Focus on cartels/concerted practices and misuse of market power
Presented by Ayman Guirguis, Competition and Consumer Law Partner, K&L Gates; Competition and Consumer Law Committee Member, Law Council of Australia
4.50pm to 5.35pm: A Lawyer’s Guide to Bankruptcy and Insolvency Procedure
- Topics routinely arising in bankruptcy and insolvency matters that general practitioners need to be aware of
- What happens if you obtain a final judgment or order against a party in financial distress?
- Attaching a judgment or order to a bankruptcy notice to serve upon a debtor
- Statutory considerations and requirements
- Going behind judgments in bankruptcy
Presented by Andrew Bailey, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
5.35pm to 6.20pm: Employment Law Toolkit
- Overview of important developments in employment law in NSW over the last 12 months
- Effectively advising your client on an employment matter
- Tips and best practices based on recent trends and cases
Presented by Christa Lenard, Partner, K & L Gates; Recommended, Leading Employment Lawyer (Employer Representation) Doyle’s Guide 2019
6.20pm to 6.30pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
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