The New Legal Profession Uniform Law
New Legal Profession Uniform Law (LPUL) commences on 1 July 2022. Be prepared for the new duties and obligations that will come into effect under the new regime. Understand your new obligations, some common traps, and gain practical takeaways with this expert panel, comprised of the Legal Practice Board of WA, Complaints Officer, and leading costs experts. Attend and gain the confidence required to ensure you adhere to the new regime. WEB227W01
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
This program is based on WA legislation
The New Legal Profession Uniform Law
- Quick overview of the changes
- Steps to ensure your practice is compliant
- The importance of valid costs agreements and good disclosure
- Common complaints – Legal Practice Board of WA insights
- Practical tips and traps
Facilitator
Craig Slater, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers; Member, Ethics Committee and Professional Standards Scheme Committee, and Convenor, Quality Practice Standard Committee, Law Society of WA
Panellists:
Michelle Castle, Barrister, 13th Floor St James Hall
Maria-Luisa Coulson, Managing Director, Coulson Legal; Chair, Costs Committee, Law Society of WA; member, Professional Affairs Committee, Legal Practice Board of WA
Cate Dealehr, Principal, The Australian Legal Costing Group; Accredited Costs Law Specialist
Russell Daily, Law Complaints Officer, Legal Profession Complaints Committee, Legal Practice Board of Western Australia
Kerrie Rosati, Principal, DGT Costs Lawyers
Presenters
Craig Slater
Craig Slater is a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers Perth where he specialises in commercial litigation. He advises on the Corporations Act and trade practices legislation. He has appeared as counsel in trials arising from disputes over contracts, misleading or deceptive conduct, the dissolution of partnerships, winding up corporations and commercial disputes generally. Craig was the 2013 President for the Law Society of Western Australia. He remains a member of its Ethics committee. He is the convenor of its Quality Practice Standard committee which administers the Society's QPS scheme. Since 2020 Craig chairs the Best Practice Advisory Committee for CPA Australia.
Michelle Castle
Michelle Castle was called to the Bar in 2007. After graduating from the University of Sydney in 1991, Michelle worked as tipstaff to Justice Simon Sheller in the NSW Court of Appeal. Thereafter Michelle practised as a solicitor with Allen Allen & Hemsley in the Construction and Arbitration department before working with, and ultimately being principal of, DGT Thompson. It was there that Michelle became a recognised expert in the law and practice of legal costs. Michelle is also a court-appointed costs assessor and serves on the Costs Assessment Rules Committee established under the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014. At the Bar, Michelle has a diverse practice in commercial and equity matters, building and construction, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporations law, administrative law, professional negligence, succession law and costs law. Michelle is a regular presenter of seminars and contributor to LSJ. She presented at Rosie Traill’s 6th Annual National Practical Bankruptcy Congress on the 3rd of December 2018. The topic was s.130 warrants and the use of other compulsive powers to obtain information.
Maria-Luisa Coulson
Maria-Luisa is one of Western Australia’s top experts in the law of costs, having acted as counsel in some of WA’s leading costs decisions and appeals. She has had papers published, has given expert evidence, and regularly lectures in relation to legal costs to lawyers and law students at Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia. As a member of the Law Society of WA’s Costs Committee, of which she was elected Chair in 2020, Maria-Luisa is involved in the development of costs practice, procedure and reform. An avid advocate of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, Maria-Luisa is a Grade 3 Arbitrator (IAMA) and in 2011 was appointed to the Law Society of WA's Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators as an Arbitrator. In 2020, she was elected to the Legal Practice Board (“LPB”) and since that time has served on the LPB’s Legal Profession Complaints Committee and the LPB’s Professional Affairs Committee.
Cate Dealehr
Cate founded ALCG in 1990 and has been an accredited costs specialist since 2010. She is the immediate past chair of the Costs Section executive committee of the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) and long-standing trainer for Victorian law graduates. She is a regular presenter at the annual National Costs Conferences. Cate is a recipient of the annual LIV Pro Bono awards and received a LIV Certificate of Service for her outstanding service to the Victorian legal profession. She served for 4 years as an elected representative for Victoria’s solicitors on the Legal Services Board and drafted the precedent costs disclosure and agreements for distribution for the profession. Cate has acted as an independent costs expert in over 25 class actions through-out Australia including acting as an appointed costs referee/costs monitor appointed by the Federal, NSW and Victorian Supreme Courts.
Russell Daily
Russell Daily was appointed as Law Complaints Officer by the Legal Practice Board of Western Australia and commenced in February 2020. Prior to this Russell spent over 13 years working in legal regulation and complaints handling at the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. During that time he spent periods acting as Commissioner and CEO, and most recently held the position of Director, Investigations. Prior to this he worked at the WA Director of Public Prosecutions for 7 years as a State Prosecutor and Practice Manager, as well as previously working in various positions within the Justice portfolio. He has had roles in Victoria with the Disciplinary Appeals Board for the Department of Education and Training, and with the HIV Case Advisory Committee with the Department of Health and Human Services. During Russell’s time in legal regulation in Victoria that state, along with NSW, began operating under the Legal Profession Uniform Law in July 2015. He worked with local stakeholders including the Law Institute of Victoria and the Victorian Bar, as well as with jurisdictions within and outside of Australia, and with the Uniform Law coordinating bodies being the Legal Services Council and Commissioner for Uniform Legal Services Regulation.
Kerrie Rosati
Kerrie Rosati, principal of DGT Costs Lawyers, is regarded as one of the profession’s leading experts in legal costs law. Kerrie works from both the Sydney and the Brisbane offices. Kerrie is a Court Appointed Costs Assessor in Queensland. She has acted in and advised on legal costs issues in many high profile and complex cases in New South Wales, Queensland and all Federal jurisdictions. Kerrie also lectures regularly to the legal profession (nationally and internationally) on legal costing issues for the Law Societies of New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Tasmania, the State Legal Conference, College of Law and other commercial seminar providers. Kerrie is a current member of the Costs Assessors’ Users Group of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Costs Committee and Ethics Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales. Kerrie graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology in 1988 and was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 1 July 1988. After working in a large commercial law firm and taking some time off to raise her family, Kerrie joined DGT in February 1998. Kerrie is also a trained mediator and part of the DGT Costs Mediation team.