CPD Compulsory Units: Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks
Gain your core CPD units while developing skills & strategies to maximise your practice, minimise risk & avoid ethical pitfalls. Sharpen your negotiation skills to achieve better outcomes in your matters. Examine the ins and outs of confidentiality. Master how to deal with a mistake or oversight right when it happens & before it’s too late. Take advantage of this convenient & efficient lunchtime web series where you’ll gain your CPD units & bolster your practice once a week at lunchtime & online. WEB219N07
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
Friday, 3 September 2021
At some point in every practice an oversight or an inadvertent mistake will arise. When that happens it’s critical that you’re prepared to act immediately to evaluate the mistake, make the proper disclosures, minimise as much damage as possible, and put yourself in a position to rectify the mistake. Work through each of these issues with step by step guides and insights into what you need to consider and do when a mistake arises. WEB219N07A
Practice Management & Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm How to Deal with an Oversight or Inadvertent Mistake in Your Practice
- Understanding the nature of oversights & mistakes
- Steps to take immediately upon discovering a mistake
- Evaluating the mistake, who and how to confer with or notify
- Disclosure: getting the manner & timing of the disclosure right
- How to avoid compounding the mistake
- Maximising your chance of the mistake being rectified
- What about another practitioner’s error?
Presented by Ashley Macknay, Director, MDS Legal
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Session 2
Friday, 10 September 2021
Those lawyers who overlook, underestimate or misjudge the significance and complexities of their duty of confidentiality will quickly find their matters or even their practice at stake. Delve deeply into the nuances of the duty of confidentiality, where things can quickly go wrong, and what you need to consider and do to avoid potential disaster. Examine real world cases and examples to ensure you meet this most critical of duties, all while gaining your ethics CPD point for the year. WEB219N07B
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Confidentiality: A Paramount and Fundamental Duty
- Sources of the duty
- Ethical rules and guidelines
- Lawyer’s oath of office
- Recent High Court decisions and some other cases
- Lawyer disclosing information and exceptions to the rule: Lawyer X
Presented by Tim Houweling, Director, Cornerstone Legal; Adjunct Professor of Law, Murdoch University
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Session 3
Friday, 17 September 2021
Effective negotiation skills can be the difference between success or failure in closing a deal, winning a dispute, or securing a new client. Take a guided tour through the strategies and techniques you can implement in your day to day practice to find success whenever you’re negotiating. Master how to set your objectives, bargain effectively, break impasses, and close the deal to ensure you and your client achieve the outcome you want. WEB219N07C
Professional Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Effective Negotiation Strategies
- Objectives: setting goals for the negotiation
- Pre-negotiation strategies: persuading parties to negotiate and preparation techniques
- Presenting your position: seeking common ground, uncovering assumptions and maximising interests
- Effective bargaining: creating options, effectively using facilitators and mediators, expanding issues, trading concessions
- Breaking Impasse: strategies for avoiding deadlock
- Closing the deal: techniques for reaching closure
Presented by Harold Werksman, Partner, Thomson Geer; Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation and Mediation
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Presenters
Ashley Macknay, Director, MDS Legal
Ashley is a director of MDS Legal and practises principally in the areas of professional indemnity and professional discipline. Ashley has been a member of the panels of solicitors for both Law Mutual (WA) (the Law Society of Western Australia’s professional indemnity arm) and the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia (the regulator of the legal profession in Western Australia) for many years. Ashley has also been the Law Society of Western Australia’s delegate to the Professional Ethics Committee of the Law Council of Australia since the inception of that Committee in 2009. As a member of that Committee, Ashley has participated in the drafting of the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules and Commentary.
Tim Houweling, Director, Cornerstone Legal
Tim Houweling is a Director at Cornerstone Legal. Tim has been providing legal services to clients of all levels and local governments for over 20 years and understands the complexities they face. Tim primarily practices law involving Town Planning, Environmental Law, Native Title, Local Government Law and Land Compensation matters. Tim often appears in the District Court, Supreme Court , Administrative Appeals Tribunal and State Administrative Tribunal. His qualifications includes: Bachelor of Laws from Murdoch University; Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University; Master of Laws from the University of Western Australia; Admitted to the Supreme Court; Admitted to the High Court; Adjunct Professor at Law.
Harold Werksman, Partner, Thomson Geer
Harold Werksman is an accredited commercial litigation and mediation specialist and practices with particular emphasis on complex corporate, commercial, contract interpretation and trade practices disputes. He is an Australian pioneer in the use of alternative dispute resolution processes and has developed specialised negotiating techniques designed for the resolution of commercial disputes. Harold is often called upon to provide strategic advice to assist clients to avoid litigation.