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. Elevate the efficiency & effectiveness of your marketing strategies. Examine the ins and outs of ethics & costs so you can avoid serious risks. Hone the key skills needed to practice as a modern lawyer on the cutting edge. Take advantage of this convenient lunchtime series where you’ll gain your CPD units & bolster your practice once a week at lunchtime & online. WEB229N60
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, 2 September 2022
Marketing a legal practice through social media is often a difficult & daunting task that can end up being a discouraging time sink. Indeed, most people overestimate the effectiveness of social media marketing while overlooking the benefits & advantages of other marketing methods that can be more efficient, simple & effective. Learn when the best option is to market without social media and how to successfully implement other practical marketing tactics to grow your practice. WEB229N60A
Practice Management & Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Marketing WITHOUT Social Media: Doubling Down on What Works
- Why you’ll never beat the social media algorithms
- The cold, hard facts: statistics on social media engagement & what it all means for effective marketing strategies
- When and how can you use social media marketing effectively & efficiently?
- What should you be doing outside of social media marketing?
- Finding & leveraging the easy marketing wins: practical, straightforward tactics you can implement
Presented by Tanya Williams, Marketing Strategist, Digital Conversations
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Session 2
Friday, 9 September 2022
Experience a practical, enlightening, and engaging session that will guide you through the key steps toward becoming an effective modern lawyer. Learn how to sharpen your legal expertise, develop your legal skills, and reflect upon the type of professional you want to be: realistic, committed to justice, ethical, and ready for whatever the future holds. WEB229N60B
Professional Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Learning to be Successful in Law: Knowing, Doing and Being
In this session, the authors of The New Lawyer present their innovative approach to educating the complete lawyer. According to their model, anyone seeking to be a successful lawyer needs to know certain things, needs be able to do certain things… and needs to be a certain type of person. The ‘knowing’ includes understanding the realities of life as a lawyer in 2022. The ‘doing’ includes legal research skills, interpretation skills, thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills and self-management skills. And the ‘being’ includes being realistic, being committed to justice, being ethical and being future-ready.
- Knowing
- Understanding the life of a lawyer in 2022
- Doing
- Legal research skills
- Interpretation skills
- Thinking skills
- Communication and collaboration skills
- Self-management skills
- Being
- Being realistic
- Being committed to justice
- Being ethical
- Being future-ready
Presented by Dr Rachael Field, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Bond University and Dr Nick James, Professor of Law & Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, Bond University, Co-Chair, Council of Australian Law Deans, & Co-Director, Centre for Professional Legal Education; Co-Authors, The New Lawyer, 2nd Edition, Wiley Direct
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Session 3
Friday, 16 September 2022
Gain your ethics point while picking up indispensable skills and strategies that will shield you from risk while also contributing to a more satisfying, stable, and long lasting career. Heighten your ability to identify and avoid ethical pitfalls related to your duties and obligations while mastering how to navigate complaints. Work through useful tips and examples in an engaging and practical session. WEB229N60C
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Best Practice Guidance in Enjoying Professional Life, Minimising Stress & Pressure, and Advocating Effectively for Your Clients in 2022
- A common type of complaint
- Core values
- Your role as an officer of the court
- Keeping file notes
- The process if a complaint is made about you
- Resources available to you
- Relevant legislation attached and outcomes
- Enjoying law with longevity
Presented by Stephen Titus, Partner, Carneys Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation