10 Points in One Day - Your Last Chance
Issues covered include: leasing, conveyancing, property law, tax, PPSA, presentation skills, work-life balance, ethics, digital customer data, commercialising IP, buying and selling a business, insolvency
Description
This is it! It’s down to the wire. Do it now or suffer the consequences later. Attend on this last day and get it all done in one go! As the saying goes, “it ain’t over ‘til it’s over. "This seminar is all you need so if you’ve left it to the last minute don’t despair! Attend the full day or just the sessions relevant to you and complete your CPD with a lineup of excellent speakers covering the most important topics you need to know.
Attend and earn 10 CPD units including:
7 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This conference was recorded in NSW on 29 March 2019
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers
Chair: Michael Willmott SC,13th Floor St James Hall Chambers
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
10.45am to 11.45am: Ethical Issues for the Experienced Commercial Advocate
Ethics are important in our dealings with clients, other practitioners, the courts, tribunals and others. Explore and consider key ethical issues facing practitioners with reference to conduct rules and a few disciplinary and other cases relevant to the topics discussed.
- What to do, what not to do and what to think twice about as a ‘commercial advocate’ advancing your client’s interests
- Ethics hypotheticals for consideration together with the cases or scenarios from which they are drawn
Presented by Andrew Bailey, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
Practice Management and Business Skills
11.45am to 12.45pm: Promoting a Healthy Work/Life Balance for Your Practice to Achieve Optimum Results
- Key statistics on stress in the legal profession
- Best ways to manage day-to-day stress
- Encouraging a work life balance to ensure success
- Recognising destructive behaviour in your colleagues and what to do
Presented by Melissa Tovey, Barrister, 13th Floor St James Hall Chambers
Professional Skills
12.45pm to 1.45pm: Presentation Skills for Lawyers
- Engagement: how to really get your point across in meetings, presentations
- Practical tips and tricks for presentation skills: the very best version of you
- How to use PowerPoint properly (or not at all)
- Convince, connect and communicate
Presented by Andrew Klein, Director, Spike Presentations
1.45pm to 2.15pm Lunch
Session 1
Property Law Roundup
Chair: Dennis Bluth, Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers, Accredited Specialist in Property Law
7.30am to 8.15am: Critical Tax Issues and Updates
- New GST withholding regime
- Tax changes and updates your property and business law clients will expect you to know
- Issues with non-residents buying, selling and owning real property: CGT, stamp duty and land tax
- Current issues with land tax and stamp duty: what State Revenue is looking at
Presented by Nick Gangemi, Barrister, Second Floor Selborne Chambers
8.15am to 9.00am: Conveyancing and Property Law Update
Examine recent cases and developments and analyse what they mean for your practice.
Presented by Gary Newton, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
9.00am to 9.45am: New Developments in Retail and Commercial Leasing
Identify key cases and changes and they’ll impact your practice in the coming year.
Presented by Catherine Hallgath, Partner, Mills Oakley Lawyers
9.45am to 10.30am: PPSA Essentials for Commercial lawyers
- How security interests arise
- When are security interests relevant to commercial transactions?
- The deadlines for PPSR registrations
- When do you need to obtain PPSR searches and related matters?
- When you need a Release Deed and related matters
- Amending or removing PPSR registrations
Presented by Karen Fairbairn, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
10.30am to 10.45am Morning Tea
Session 3
Business and Commercial Law Roundup
Chair: Ishita Sethi, Barrister, 7 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
2.15pm to 3.15pm: Buying and Selling a Business: Risk, Value and Negotiation
- Understanding your client’s business
- Business value drivers
- Buyer: acquisitions strategies
- Seller: divestment strategies
Presented by Andrew Pavuk, Executive Principal, Pavuk Legal
3.15pm to 4.15pm: Commercialising IP
- Protecting the licensed IP
- Securing ownership; registration; freedom to operate
- Finding the right partner
- Skill set; resources; track record
- The commercialising agreement
- Holding the licensee accountable; allocation of risk; termination rights
Presented by Judith Miller, Principal & National Practice Group Leader – Commercial, Wrays Lawyers
4.15pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.30pm: Managing Digital Customer Data: Practical Business Strategies
- Living with the new Consumer Data Right
- Privacy, security, confidentiality and consumer protection: how they fit together
- Ownership and control of data: reconciling property rights and digital trust
- What is likely to go wrong and how to allocate and mitigate risks
Presented by Peter Leonard, Principal, Data Synergies, Professor of Practice, UNSW Business School
5.30pm to 6.30pm: Personal and Corporate Insolvency Update
- Rights of liquidators to recover third party preference payments: Hosking v Extend N Build Pty Ltd [2018] NSWCA 149
- Latest case law on Bankruptcy Notices: LFDB v MS S M [2018] FCA 1397
- Distribution of trust assets in corporate insolvency: Commonwealth v Byrnes (2018) 330
Presented by Nicholas Simpson, Barrister,13th Floor St James Hall Chambers