10 Points on a Saturday
213N23: Sure it’s a Saturday, but once you are done, you really are well and truly done. This day will be time well spent and won’t cut into your work week. Take the plunge, wear what you like, come and hear the latest issues you need to catch up on, and get it all done in one fell swoop.
Description
Attend the full day and earn 10 CPD units including:
6.5 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1.5 units in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Session 1
Family Law and Wills and Estates Update
Chair: Geoffry Underwood, Barrister, Sixth Floor Selbourne Wentworth Chambers
Professional Skills
7.30am to 8.15am Family Provision Practice and Procedure: How to Commence a Family Provision Claim
- Institution of proceedings
- Plaintiff’s affidavit
- Defendant’s affidavit
- Settlement and orders
Presented by John Armfield, Barrister, Second Floor Wentworth Chambers; Preeminent Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2020
8.15am to 9.00am Estate Practice: Recent Cases and the Takeaways
Examine recent published judgments of particular significance for practitioners involved in all types of wills and estates matters and examine what are the important takeaways for your practice from these decisions.
Presented by Michelle Painter SC, Nine Selborne Chambers; Recommended Wills & Estates Litigation Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2021
9.00am to 9.45am Analysis of Recent Family Law and Property Division Cases
Gain a valuable update of the most recent, significant cases and trends from the Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court on property and financial settlements and relevant legislative amendments.
Presented by Neil Jackson, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
9.45am to 10.00am Morning Tea
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers
Chair: Lara Wentworth, former Partner, Madison Marcus and Wellness and Performance Coach
Professional Skills
10.00am to 11.00am Mediation Advocacy: Achieving Success
- When to mediate?
- Preparing and strategies for mediation
- Negotiation: key insights on how to be an effective negotiator
- Dealing with difficult clients or opposing lawyer
- Choice of mediator
- When to consider briefing counsel
- Documenting the settlement
Presented by Anthony Lo Surdo SC, FCIArb, Barrister, Independent Arbitrator, Advanced Mediator, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, Sydney; Lonsdale Chambers, Melbourne; Outer Temple Chambers, London; Abu Dhabi, Dubai
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
11.00am to 12.00pm Claims of Unethical Legal Practice Management
An employed solicitor working remotely from home fails to record a hearing date & leaves the firm. Months later, while in isolation awaiting the results of your COVID-19 test, you get a telephone call from a Judge’s Associate asking why nobody is in court.
- How will you avoid a personal costs order for any adjournment?
- How will you respond to a formal disciplinary complaint about your failure to ensure representation?
- How will you manage the client engagement?
Consider case law and materials covering advanced aspects of legal ethics and professional responsibility. You will leave this seminar understanding the regulations and standards, along with practical advice about systems and record keeping enabling you to support your ethical and professional responsibility obligations and, should the need arise, marshal as evidence in your defence or in mitigation of any penalty.
Presented by Philippe Doyle Gray, Barrister, 8 Wentworth Chambers
Practice Management & Business Skills
12.00pm to 1.00pm Ensuring Your Wellbeing and Mental Health of your Staff in Challenging Times
- Mental health in the legal industry: statistics and prevalence
- Understanding the difference between stress and a mental health condition
- Burnout: early warning signs and impact on productivity
- Exposure to distressing content: risks and protective factors
- How to nurture and maintain effective communication skills
- Mental health strategy: What does this look like?
Presented by Emma Howard, Psychologist and National Mental Health Manager, Clayton Utz
1.00pm to 1.30pm Lunch
Session 3
Property and Employment Law Roundup
Chair: Diane Skapinker, Partner, Ashurst; Accredited Specialist in Property Law; Recommended, Property & Real Estate Lawyers, Doyle’s Guide 2020
1.30pm to 2.20pm Property Law Review: Developments Over the Last 12 Months
- Strata law update
- Leasing update
- Conveyancing update
Presented by Greg Sirtes SC, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
2.20pm to 3.10pm Employment Law: Advising Employers and Employees
- Dealing with workplace disputes
- Advising best practice for employers
- Case studies addressing the issues in unfair dismissal, adverse action, redundancy, workplace conflict, industrial disputes
Presented by Ben Motro, Partner, Piper Alderman
3.10pm to 3.25pm Afternoon Tea
Session 4
Commercial Update – Insolvency, Consumer Law and Contracts
Chair: Andy Munro, Barrister, Wardell Chambers
3.25pm to 4.10pm Bankruptcy and Insolvency Roundup for All Practitioners
Dive into some of the most significant issues arising in bankruptcy and insolvency matters and understand how to apply their lessons to your matters.
Presented by Colin Brown, Partner, O’Neill Partners
4.10pm to 5.00pm Consumer and Competition Law Update
- ACCC compliance and enforcement priorities for 2021 including:
- Misleading or deceptive conduct: websites, social media, digital advertising (including testimonials)
- Statutory consumer guarantees, unfair contract terms and relationship with misleading or deceptive conduct
- Review of significant cases and legislative developments in competition and consumer law in the past year (together with a refresher on the related provisions of the Competition and Consumer provisions)
Presented by Ayman Guirguis, Partner, K&L Gates; Best Lawyers 2021, Competition Law
5.00pm to 5.45pm IP Roadmap for Your Client’s Business
- Protecting IP assets: primer and refresher
- Brands and trade marks, slogans and tag lines, names: what is registrable and how to maximise value in a trade mark portfolio
- Bringing it all together: other forms of IP, and common IP FAQs
- Developing an IP strategy and IP watch outs when selling a business
Presented by Alison Jones, Special Counsel, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
5.45pm to 6.30pm Latest Issues on Contracts in Current Times
- Force majeure clauses
- Frustration
- Termination for cause and convenience
- Dispute resolution clauses
- Damages and the latest from the High Court
Presented by David Jury, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
6.30pm Close
Presenters
Geoffry Underwood
Geoffry Underwood is a barrister practising from Sixth Floor, Selborne Wentworth Chambers, 174 Phillip Street Sydney. He practises principally in the area of Equity, Estate and Family Provision advising and litigation. He has been involved in Estate Litigation on a regular basis for over 20 years. He has many interests outside the law including family, travel, golf and classical music.
Neil Jackson
As a family law specialist, Neil has particular expertise in property and child-related disputes. The depth of his practice also extends to expert knowledge in the law relating to de facto relationships. Neil maintains a strong advisory practice and regularly appears in the Family Court of Australia, Family Circuit Court and in appellate courts for a broad range of clients, including the Independent Children’s Lawyer. The breadth of his practice has also seen him appear in Family Law Court Registries outside Sydney, including Townsville, Brisbane, Parramatta, Newcastle, Canberra and interstate, such as Melbourne and Perth. He has been appointed Mediator of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and has participated in hundreds of mediations and conciliation conferences throughout his legal career.
Michelle Painter SC
Michelle Painter SC practices primarily in commercial law, including all manner of commercial disputes, equity and trusts, family provision and probate. She has been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a Recommended or Leading Senior Counsel in Wills and Estate Litigation in every year since 2015. She regularly appears in proceedings concerning large estates, usually but not exclusively, for the executors. Michelle commenced practice as a barrister in 1998 and took silk in 2013.
John Armfield
John specialises in estate litigation. He has been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a pre-eminent junior counsel in Wills and Estates Litigation in 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2015. He regularly acts as a mediator with respect to family provision claims. Regularly advising and appearing for plaintiffs and estates in relation to matters in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, John has extensive experience also representing clients at mediations and informal settlement conferences. His practice has a strong emphasis on probate, family provision applications and will construction. He has also appeared in applications seeking a review of orders allowing commission to executors.
Lara Wentworth
Lara Wentworth is a former Partner at Madison Marcus Law Firm and until recently led the firm's Family Law Division & Wills & Estate Planning Division. She has over 17 years' experience practicing law. Over more recent times Lara has embarked on and established a coaching and training practice where she mentors, coaches and trains members of the legal profession. She is a certified Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Lara is also currently completing international coaching certification with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) due to be completed 2020. Lara’s coaching and training is aimed at helping people in the legal profession to enhance their leadership skills and improve their mental health so they can be high performing and happy humans.
Anthony Lo Surdo SC
Anthony Lo Surdo SC, FCIArb, was called to the Bar in 1996, having previously practiced as a solicitor since his admission as a legal practitioner in 1987. He was appointed as Senior Counsel in 2011. He practices from 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, Sydney, Lonsdale Chambers, Melbourne and Outer Temple Chambers, England and UAE. Anthony specialises in banking, contract, commercial, corporations, equity, professional indemnity, insurance, insolvency, property and sports law. He is described in Doyles Guide to the Australian Legal Profession in 2015-2020 as one of the country’s leading insolvency and reconstruction Silks. He is accredited as a mediator under the National Mediation Accreditation System and as an Advanced Mediator by Resolution Institute. He is also certified by the International Mediation Institute and the Singapore International Mediation Institute. He has been rated by Doyles Guide in 2017-2020 as a leading mediator in NSW. Anthony is also accredited as a Grade 1 Arbitrator and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, of Resolution Institute and of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. Doyles Guide described him in 2019 and 2020 as one of the country’s leading arbitration Senior Counsel.
Philippe Doyle Gray
I am a barrister with over 20 years' legal experience who loves working in litigation and dispute resolution. I pride myself on being a lawyer's lawyer. Throughout my career, I have been entrusted by my colleagues to guide, advise, and represent them and their families.
From billionaires to ordinary mums and dads, my clients have been business people, insurance companies, publishers, banks, property developers, doctors, building and construction professionals, multinational corporations, government bodies and public institutions. Pro bono work is a hallmark of a professional and at any one moment in time, amongst my current crop of cases, I am usually representing somebody referred by the Courts for free legal assistance.
Emma Howard
Emma Howard is the National Mental Health Manager at Clayton Utz. Emma provides clinical expertise and direction in the development of educational programs, policies and procedures relating to mental health and wellbeing at the firm. As a Senior Consultant Psychologist, Emma has provided psychological consultancy, including training on mental health, personal resilience, leadership and organisational change. Emma has extensive experience in providing counselling, coaching, and psychological rehabilitation services from graduates to executives.
Emma completed a BA (Psychology) followed by Post Graduate Diplomas in Psychology and Science (Honours). Emma completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Psychological Practice and went on to complete a Masters in Human Resources and Industrial Relations at the University of Sydney in June 2016.
Diane Skapinker
Diane Skapinker is a partner in the Ashurst real estate group where she specialises in property developments, strata and community titling, acquisitions, disposals, leasing and the property aspects of telecommunications and infrastructure projects. Diane was formerly an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Sydney lecturing in Real Property, Conveyancing and Equity and is a member of the NSW Law Society’s Property Law Committee and its subcommittee responsible for drafting the NSW standard form contract for the sale and purchase of land. Diane is recognised as a real estate lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific, Doyle's Guide and Best Lawyers Australia.
Greg Sirtes SC
Gregory Sirtes practices on the 12th Floor of Wentworth & Selborne Chambers. He was called to the Bar in 1992 having practiced before then as a solicitor for 2 years. His main areas of practice are real property, construction, commercial/equity, insurance, wills & probate and professional negligence. He has been listed in Doyle’s Guide as a Leading Construction Counsel (2018, 2019, 2020) and Leading Commercial Litigation Counsel (2017). He has been a member of the Navy Reserve since 2009 and was appointed in 2018 as a Judge Advocate/Defence Force Magistrate of the Australian Defence Force.
Ben Motro
Ben Motro is a Partner in our Sydney office. He is a member of the firm's Employment Relations team. Ben's primary area of expertise is in employment law and industrial relations. Ben provides advice to clients in all areas of employment law, industrial relations and workplace health and safety, and in a variety of industries, including the IT, retail, manufacturing, food & beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Ben has had significant experience with advising on and preparing employment contracts, enterprise agreements, deeds of release and employer policies. He also assists clients in litigious matters, and has appeared before the Fair Work Commission in unfair dismissal and general protections matters, industrial action disputes, as well as applications for enterprise agreement approvals and transfers of business matters.
Andy Munro
With a broad range of experience in civil, commercial and consumer litigation, Andrew was called to the Bar following many years of practising as a solicitor in Sydney and Coffs Harbour. Possessing extensive experience in superior and inferior Courts, including appellate Courts, as well as all levels of Tribunals, Andrew accepts briefs to appear in all Australian Courts and Tribunals, including regional and remote locations across New South Wales and interstate. His client base typically consists of both individuals and corporations. The broad suite of matters in which he is briefed includes commercial and general litigation, corporations, trade practices and consumer law, trusts, estate litigation, probate and wills disputes, franchising, equity, professional negligence, rural and farming litigation, building disputes, nuisance, small claims and debt recovery.
Colin Brown
Colin specialises in the areas of insolvency and reconstruction and commercial litigation. A member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association (ARITA), Colin acts for secured and unsecured creditors, commercial entities, administrators, liquidators, bankruptcy trustees and other insolvency practitioners across a range of industry sectors, as well as advising individuals, boards and company directors on all aspects of insolvency law. Colin also acts for private and corporate clients involved in a broad range of commercial disputes, particularly in respect of contractual and commercial transaction, resolving a number of large and complex commercial disputes for the firm’s clients.
Ayman Guirguis
Ayman Guirguis advises clients on all aspects of antitrust/competition law as well as consumer law. Ayman has a wealth of experience advising clients on merger clearance, joint ventures and on supply chain arrangements between suppliers and customers. Ayman regularly advises on, and responds to, regulatory investigations by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleging cartel conduct (price fixing, market sharing or bid rigging), including making immunity and leniency applications, competitor interactions at Industry Associations, as well as on other anti-competitive allegations such as misuse of market power, exclusivities, including defending litigation commenced by the ACCC.
Alison Jones
Alison Jones is a Special Counsel in the intellectual property practice of Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Australia’s leading independent law firm. Alison specialises in intellectual property and consumer protection law, and advises clients across all business sectors on a range of IP, regulatory and related areas including IP strategy, advising on commercial arrangements of various kinds and contract drafting, advertising and marketing, competition and consumer law issues, IP enforcement, and commercial regulatory (including food law, cosmetics, life sciences and therapeutic goods regulation, product liability risk and recall, privacy and data protection). Alison's experience in this area also includes secondments at leading companies in IP-driven sectors, including fast moving consumer goods and life sciences.
David Jury
David has practised in building and construction industry for 25years and has particular expertise in adjoining land owner issues including proceedings under section 88K of the Conveyancing Act. David’s clients include, Contractors, Developers and specialist subcontractors. David provides advice on tendering, project delivery, contract administration and dispute resolution including processes under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act.
Venue
The Grace Hotel
77 York St
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia