CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers – 4 March 2021
213N09: Wary of traps in your obligations regarding privilege? Grappling with how to be an effective leader and trusted adviser? Don’t let these challenges side-track your career path. Hear from a stellar lineup of leading practitioners and master the skills needed to effectively deal with each of these issues all while gaining your CPD compulsory units for the year.
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
Chair: Paul Davis, Director, Integroe Partners
Practice Management and Business Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm Tips for Building and Enhancing Your Practice as a Trusted Adviser
- How do you move from a costs centre to a value creator?
- Making the effort to understand the client or prospective clients’ business and the broader context
- Short and long term perspectives
- A solution oriented approach
Presented by Fred Chilton, Special Counsel, Toomey Pegg Lawyers
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Leadership for Lawyers
- Are you a leader?
- Different kinds of leadership
- Realising your leadership capability
Presented by Christa Ludlow, Principal Consultant, Weir Consulting
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm Privilege: A Fresh Approach
Legal professional privilege is one of the most important issues facing a lawyer. The rules are complex, and change regularly. A strong understanding of privilege, how it works, and how it can be inadvertently lost, are all critical skills of the in-house or external lawyer.
- A refresh on the law of privilege as it exists today
- The special issues facing the in-house lawyer
- Hints and traps relating to how key documents are handled
- How you can lose privilege in a document inadvertently
- How privilege can be maintained when disseminating a privileged document within a corporate group
Presented by John Emmerig, Partner-in-Charge, Jones Day; Recommended Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2020
Presenters
Paul Davis, Director, Integroe Partners
Paul is an experienced employment lawyer, having acquired admission into the Supreme Court of NSW in 1993. He is an experienced Resolution Institute accredited mediator who has managed the resolution of many complex disputes over many years. He is regularly engaged to co-ordinate sensitive workplace investigations and advise on complex professional standards matters. Paul has extensive experience in leading organisational change through the delivery of effective planning, policy development and training services. He brings significant governance experience to consultations relating to organisational review processes and advice on sponsorship.
Fred Chilton, Special Counsel, Toomey Pegg Lawyers
Fred Chilton is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer. His many clients regard him as a senior adviser to their businesses and his reputation makes him a lawyer of choice for many overseas companies doing business in Australia. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global and Who's Who Legal. He acts for companies large and small (including start-ups) in the pharmaceutical, high technology, telecommunications and information technology sectors. He also acts for not-for-profit entities. Fred is former Vice-Chairman of the International Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association where he continues to be heavily involved. He has authored the Australian chapters of global publications relating to M&A, establishment of business and agency and distribution. He has been a visiting lecturer in Mining Law at the University of New South Wales and is currently lecturing in the Master of Intellectual Property course at UTS, Sydney.
Christa Ludlow, Principal Consultant, Weir Consulting
B.A., LL.B., M.A., Cert IV Investigations, M.Sc. (Coach.Psych.) Christa is a lawyer, workplace investigator, mediator and coach with Weir Consulting (National). She held the role of Assistant Crown Solicitor, Employment Law, at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office from 2006 to 2013, managing a team providing legal services to the NSW Government. From 2016 to the present she has been a part-time Senior Member with the Civil and Administrative Tribunal. She is an accredited mediator and has investigated allegations of workplace bullying, discrimination and harassment, as well as fraud and corrupt conduct. Christa has a Master of Science degree in Coaching Psychology from the University of Sydney. She has coached and trained lawyers and other professionals on career progression, ethical conduct, interpersonal behaviours and wellbeing at work.
John Emmerig, Partner-in-Charge, Jones Day
John Emmerig has 30 years' experience in high-stakes litigation representing the interests of global and major domestic corporations, financial institutions, and government. John's core practise areas are class action defence, major commercial disputes ("bet-the-company" level), and government/regulator litigation. John has practised in Australian class action defence work since the procedures were first introduced in 1992. His experience spans shareholder, financial products, products liability, government, and environmental class action claims. He is Co-Chair of the Class Actions Committee of the Law Council of Australia, lead author of the Federal Court Practice Manual section on "Class Actions," and a member of the Federal Court's National Class Action Liaison Committee. He is Chair of the Federal Litigation & Dispute Resolution Section of the Law Council, Co-Chair of the Transnational Litigation Committee, and serves on the Federal Court's National Liaison Committee on Practice and Procedure.
Venue
The Grace Hotel
77 York St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia