CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks
A lunchtime series for your compulsory units – this could not be easier! Join us from wherever you choose while you enjoy your lunch and earn your compulsory units at the same time. Convenient, easy and stress free. Together with this engaging panel of experts you will enhance your practice and benefit your clients by examining effective legal project management, how to build a culturally diverse workforce for a successful practice, and the main ethical duties as a legal practitioner. WEB215N01
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
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.
Session 1
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Professional Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Effective Legal Project Management
- Why it is an essential skill for all lawyers
- The benefits of legal project management including:
- Capturing and controlling legal costs
- Managing stakeholder relationships
- Managing risks
- Monitoring of projects
- Lessons learned feedback
Presented by Joanne Rees, CEO, Allygroup
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Session 2
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Practice Management and Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm How to Build a Culturally Diverse and Successful Practice
- Identifying the key aspects of a positive workplace culture
- Understanding the links between workplace culture and model positive leadership behaviours in your organisation:
- The role of leadership in modelling positive culture and reducing conduct risk
- Upskilling your leadership to address conduct risk
- Strategies for overcoming roadblocks to positive cultural change
- Dealing with discrimination, harassment and bullying
Presented by Joydeep Hor, Founder and Managing Principal, People and Culture Strategies
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Session 3
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Ethical Challenges in the Practice of the Law
- The role of ethics in the profession and day to day practice
- Three core ethical duties of lawyers
- Duty to the Court and the administration of justice
- Duty to your client
- Duty of confidentiality
- Duty of a solicitor’s conflict of interest
- Duty to obey the law
- Dealings with others in the course of legal practice
- Civility and courtesy and why it makes you a better lawyer
Presented by Pippa Colman, Director, Pippa Colman and Associates
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Presenters
Joanne Rees
Joanne Rees is one of Australia's most respected strategic legal advisors and a recognised international thought leader in legal services procurement and legal project management. With a career spanning over 30 years, Joanne has successfully project-managed some of the most complex and high profile litigation cases in Australia. Applying the depth and breadth of legal insight this experience has accrued, she founded Allygroup as a leading firm offering innovative procurement practices including legal project management services and training. As CEO of Allygroup, Joanne has conducted numerous legal services reviews, including whole of government reviews for NSW Treasury, Queensland Government and large corporates.
Joydeep Hor
Joydeep Hor is People + Culture Strategies Founder and Managing Principal. He is one of Australia's most well-known workplace relations lawyers due to his high media profile (both as a sought-after media commentator and prolific keynote speaker including appearing regularly on shows such as Sunrise and on Sky Business Channel) and his representation of several high profile clients throughout his career. While an expert in all areas of workplace relations, Joydeep is one of Australia's "go to" lawyers for complex and sensitive terminations of employment and also for addressing all aspects of workplace behaviour and culture (such as bullying and harassment).
Pippa Colman
Pippa Colman, the Founding Director of Pippa Colman & Associates Law Practice, was admitted in February 1979. She became a Family Law Accredited Specialist in 1997 and is also a mediator and arbitrator. Pippa has worked in every aspect of Family Law, including Property, Children, Spousal Maintenance, Child Support, Domestic Violence, Binding Financial Agreements and Hague Applications. She has appeared as an advocate in the Magistrates Court, District Court & Supreme Court of Queensland, and in the Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court of Australia.