In-House Counsel: CPD Compulsory Units
Gain in-depth guides to 3 critically important issues facing in-house counsel today while earning your core CPD units. Meet your duties in staying on top of employee mental health in a time of change & uncertainty. Master how to analyse a company’s financial position to minimise the legal & business risks arising when in-house counsel are asked to weigh in on a commercial transaction. Finally, learn how to utilise data, analytics & AI to keep up with your industry peers in this increasingly important area.
Description
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
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Managing Your Responsibility for the Mental Wellbeing of Employees
- A guide to managing mental health in the workplace
- What is the cost of mental health to organisations?
- Why do employers have an ethical and professional responsibility to educate and train managers on mental health?
- Understanding signs and symptoms of someone whose work performance is impaired and how to approach an employee
- Key lessons and takeaways for in-house counsel
Presented by Renato Marasco, Employee Relations Lawyer
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: In-House Counsel’s Guide to Analysing & Interpreting a Company’s Financial Position
In this practical session you will learn how to mitigate legal and financial risk by honing your skills in reading, understanding and utilising financial information.
- How to identify indicators of risk and uncertainty in financial statements
- Spotting warning signs and understanding the risks of potential financial distress or insolvency
- Utilising ratio analysis to minimise risk by detecting financial red flags
- Recognising indicators that financial statements may be unreliable or misstated
- Examining how a miscategorisation of assets and liabilities can result in legal and financial risks
Presented by Dino Travaglini, Director, Travaglini Corporate Advisory
4.00pm to 4.10pm: Break
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.10pm to 5.10pm: Utilising Analytics, AI, Automation & Organisational Change to Meet Regulatory Duties
- Compliance & reporting: how to use the latest technology and trends to meet regulatory challenges
- Insights into Intelligent Process Automation to improve your legal department’s performance
- Update on how in-house counsel can utilise AI in their practice
- Staying on top of future trends in compliance in a post Hayne Royal Commission world
- How you can leverage technology, data and legal analytics in your role
- Organisational change for senior management and the board to manage the future regulatory environment
Presented by David Millhouse, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Bond University
Presenters
Renato Marasco
Renato is an experienced senior employee relations practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in employment law & industrial relations. His most recent role was as Labour Relations Leader for Boeing Aerostructures Australia based in Port Melbourne. Renato has degrees in Law and Commerce, a Graduate Diploma in Labour Relations Law and a Master of Business Administration. He is also a Harvard trained mediator. His role at Boeing was to provide the organisation with effective employee relations advice, tools and solutions which would enable it to build highly performing people and mitigate risk to achieve its business goals. Renato has also held senior employee relations roles at RACV, GE Capital, Coles and the Australian Industry Group.
Dino Travaglini
Dino established Travaglini Corporate Advisory, a boutique chartered accounting and corporate advisory firm which specialises in advising distressed businesses. The key services that his firm provides is business turnaround, debt and financial restructuring, insolvency advice, lender negotiation, independent expert reports, safe harbour advice. His career is built up on over 30 years' experience as a registered liquidator and trustee in bankruptcy acting in formal corporate and personal insolvency administrations and corporate restructure. Much of his experience was as a partner of national chartered accounting and restructure firms Moore Stephens and Cor Cordis.
David Millhouse
David has been a serial entrepreneur in international private equity, venture capital and funds management sectors in Chief Executive and board roles since 1983. David has been awarded a Ph.D in Law from Bond University that has been publicly recognised by the Australian Financial Review, on television, and with three scholarly articles published in the Law and Financial Markets Review. He is a regular speaker at conferences. He presently acts as a board strategy consultant and has also written two chapters in the textbook for Bond University’s start-up law course. He is experienced at director level in several countries including Australia, Singapore and Germany with 30 years of practical experience in building and managing international companies.