In-House 10 Points CPD: Critical Updates & Practical Guidance 2022
Gain all the CPD, updates & strategies you need with a series of the most important topics all tailored for in-house counsel. Make it easy for yourself & save by registering for the series or just the sessions that interest you. Watch each session online or as an on-demand recording. Informative 1-hour sessions explore the interpretation of contracts, competition & consumer law, cyber-crime, employment law, health & safety, reputation risk, privilege, ethics & more. WEB228N51Z
Description
Attend the full series and earn 10.5 CPD units including:
6 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
2.5 units 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
Thursday, 11 August 2022
It is well known that law firms possess some of the most confidential and sensitive client information. This makes corporate executives a prime target for cyber-criminals. As in-house counsel it’s critical that you understand these risks and learn how to mitigate them. Delve into exactly how and why cyber-crime poses such a significant risk to executives. Gain practical strategies to minimise vulnerabilities and address the risks your firm may face in the future. WEB228N51A
1.00pm to 2.00pm Understanding Online and Cyber Risk: Key Focus Areas for In-House Counsel
- Cyber risk to executives
- Role of In-House Counsel to minimise cyber risk
- Extent of risk affecting the firm
- Strategies to reduce cyber risk
Presented by Chris McLaughlin, Principal, Clyde & Co
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Session 2
Thursday, 18 August 2022
Explore the latest trends, developments and cases in employment law and analyse the critical takeaways and strategies that in-house counsels need to minimize risk in their role and for their organisation. WEB228N51B
1.00pm to 2.00pm Recent and Proposed Changes to Employment Law
- Post-Election: what changes to employment law are on the horizon?
- High Court: contractors vs employees what is now the position post Personnel [2022] HCA 1 and Jamsek [2022] HCA 2?
- What are the risks for employers with these changes?
Presented by Tim Capelin, Partner, Piper Alderman
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Session 3
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Insurance law has taken front stage in the last year and organisations are more exposed to many types of risk and liability than ever before. Learn how to avoid the liabilities in the context of insurance law. WEB228N51C
1.00pm to 2.00pm Insurance Law Update for In-House Counsel: Liability Issues to Consider
Presented by Andrew Gray, Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
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Session 4
Thursday, 1 September 2022
Stay up to date on the most important trends, developments and cases involving competition and consumer law. Explore the latest updates in significant new legislation. Analyse the critical takeaways from recent cases that may a have a major impact on your organisation. Prepare yourself to confidently, efficiently & effectively navigate any competition or consumer law risk that comes your organisation’s way. WEB229N51D
1.00pm to 2.00pm Competition and Consumer Law Update: Important Developments and Future Focus
- ACCC’s focus under new Chair and impact of new Labor government
- Recent key cases and trends in penalties, including specific areas of concern
- Regulatory initiatives in relation to digital platforms and ‘Big Tech’
- Stocktake of proposed merger reforms and trends in ACCC merger reviews, including new FIRB regime
- The next phase of reforms to Australian Consumer Law, including new unfair trading prohibitions
Presented by Dr Martyn Taylor, Partner, and Zoe Lonard, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
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Session 5
Thursday, 8 September 2022
Recognising Commercial Risk and Understanding Expert Reports
Master how to expertly balance the push and pull between legal risk, commercial risk, and profit. WEB229N51E
Professional Skills
1.00pm to 1.45pm Recognising and Dealing with Legal and Commercial Risk
- Risk: What is it?
- Legal environment of risk for clients
- Personal risks of advisors and officer’s
- Risk return trade off
- Ethical issues and risk
- How to deal with risk
- Possible tools to use in deal with striking the balance of legal and commercial risk and reward
Presented by Steven Brown, Chairman, Etienne Lawyers
Learn the important tips and traps when engaging an expert and preparing an expert report. Explore the range of different types of expert reports that are crucial to an in-house counsel. WEB229N51E
Professional Skills
1.45pm to 2.30pm Preparation and Management of Expert Reports for Regulators and Key Stakeholders
- How and when to engage experts
- What to expect from your experts
- What should expert reports contain
Presented by Janine Thompson, Partner, McGrath Nicol
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Session 6
Thursday, 15 September 2022
The capacity to issue directions to staff can play an important role in establishing a comprehensive administrative information-handling framework. Hear from a renowned expert about what you can and can’t do. Explore what is reasonable, what is lawful, and steps to be taken when an employee does not comply. WEB229N51F
1.00pm to 2.00pm The Line Between Reasonable and Unreasonable Directions: Your Role as an Employer
- What are the sources of an employer’s right to direct employees?
- When can an employee refuse a direction
- Where employer directions are most critical
- Taking steps as an employer where directions are not complied with
Presented by Ben Motro, Partner, Piper Alderman
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Session 7
Friday, 23 September 2022
Gain in-depth guides on how to avoid the risk of health and safety incidents and workplace accidents. Hear from a renowned expert as they walk you through what you need to consider to effectively tackle health & safety incidents through preparation and testing. WEB229N51G
Professional Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Managing Health & Safety Risks in the Evolving Workplace
Presented by Ian Bennett, Special Counsel and Ben Gottlieb, Senior Associate, Sparke Helmore Lawyers
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Session 8
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Minimise your contract risks and avoid costly interpretation disputes by understanding current approaches by the High court, correction of mistakes, modern approaches and the future of contract construction. WEB2210N51H
1.00pm to 2.00pm Contractual Interpretation in 2022 and Beyond
- Current approach of the High Court
- Ambiguity
- Inconsistency
- Correction of mistakes by construction
- Contractual maxims: the modern approach
- Interpretation of specific types of contracts
- The future of contractual interpretation
Presented by Alex Ottaway, Special Counsel, HWL Ebsworth and Shannon Hellyer, Senior Associate, HWL Ebsworth
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Session 9
Thursday 3 November 2022
Understand what is meant by Legal Professional Privilege and when does it apply. Learn when and under which situations privilege be waived. Gain the required tips on maintaining privilege and protect yourself from unwanted liability. WEB2211N51I
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Legal Professional Privilege and Managing Conflicting Duties
- What is LPP? Why does it exist?
- Challenges for In-House lawyers1
- How LPP may be lost and how to prevent this from happening
- Strategies to achieve the right balance
Presented by Tony de Govrik, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Probus South Pacific Limited
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Session 10
Thursday, 17 November 2022
Consider the ever-rising reputational risks related to an organisation’s culture and how to avoid disaster. WEB2211N51J
Practice Management & Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm The Importance of Good Culture and How It Can Affect Your Organisation
Presented by Kiri Brain, CEO, Turks Legal
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Presenters
Jordan Welden-Iley
Jordan is a Senior Advisor with the Clyde & Co Cyber Risk Advisory Practice. His cyber security expertise is across governance, risk, compliance and strategy and predominately for enterprise and mid-market entities in the financial services, technology and government sectors. Prior to working with Clyde & Co, Jordan worked with a global cyber security consulting practice after commencing his career as an Australian Lawyer having experience in litigation, corporate advisory and restructuring. Jordan holds a MBA, BCom, LLB, and has written cyber security examinations for CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.
Tim Capelin
Tim is recognised as one of Australia’s leading workplace lawyers. He created and led Australia’s top boutique workplace law firm for more than a decade before accepting Piper Alderman’s invitation to join our practice. Tim has over 25 years’ experience in employment and industrial relations law. Tim understands the commercial realities of business from the perspective of a business owner and adviser. This background enhances Tim’s provision of strategic advice to clients on employment and workforce matters. He is an experienced advocate and has represented employers in all relevant tribunals and courts.
Tim’s industry knowledge includes working with clients in publishing, agribusiness, health, hospitality, finance, retail, logistics, resources, government, professional services, transport, building & construction, social & community services and pharmaceutical industries. He frequently presents on workplace law topics, is a regular contributor to industry and legal publications and is sought by the media for comment on workplace law issues.
Andrew Gray
Andrew has over 25 years’ practical experience in insurance, reinsurance and alternative risk transfer markets and, more generally, advising on litigation, mediation and international arbitrations. Working across Australia, Asia and Globally, Andrew has held senior in-house roles with Aon and HIH Insurance. Andrew’s focus is on assisting Australian-based clients, including in-house colleagues, to generate innovative and practical solutions across the full range of challenges and opportunities that present in risk management, risk transfer and disputes/litigation.
Dr Martyn Taylor
Dr Martyn Taylor is a corporate and commercial lawyer based in Sydney. He heads the telecommunications and media group, the international trade group, and the rail group in the Asia-Pacific. He is described as “smart, efficient, friendly”. Martyn’s practice covers transactional, contentious and advisory. He is a well-known telecommunications, internet, media and technology (TMT), infrastructure, energy, competition and regulatory lawyer.
In 2018, Martyn was named as one of the 'top 10' TMT legal advisors in Asia. Martyn is recommended by the key legal directories, including Best Lawyers, Chambers, Who's Who Legal, Doyle's Guide and APL 500. Martyn was also a finalist for 'Australian Deal Maker of the Year' in 2015, 2016 and 2019, and was a finalist for 'Australian Law Firm Partner of the Year - Competition, Trade & Regulatory' in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. Martyn has various board/director roles, including as President of the Communications & Media Law Association, and Treasurer of the International Section of the Law Council of Australia. He is an angel investor and business owner. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. As well as holding a PhD in law, Martyn is a qualified economist and he holds a masters' degree in corporate finance. He has attended Harvard University, Oxford University and Wharton Business School. He has published well over 100 publications, including the award-nominated book 'International Competition Law'
Zoe Lonard
Zoe Lonard is an antitrust and competition lawyer based in Sydney. Zoe advises clients on a range of competition and consumer issues, including obtaining merger clearance from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), ACCC investigations and litigation, and competition and consumer law compliance, to clients in sectors including life sciences and healthcare, financial institutions, technology, energy and resources. Prior to joining private practice, Zoe held various roles at the ACCC, including in cartel investigations and prosecutions, competition, and consumer law investigations, as well as merger investigations. Zoe also has experience as a Legal Adviser at the Competition & Markets Authority in the United Kingdom.
Steven Brown
Steven Brown is highly experienced lawyer with an extensive knowledge in all aspects of commercial law, with an intimate knowledge of the Corporations Law and the Australian Securities Exchange business and listing rules, being involved in corporate structuring, compliance, corporate takeovers, company floats, the preparation of prospectuses, employee share schemes and advising on directors' duties, and insolvency and securities law and practice. Steven currently lectures: in the Masters of Banking Law Course conducted by Macquarie University; in the Master of Finance for FINSIA in the areas of securities and insolvency and contract law and law, regulation and ethics; and for the Property Investors Association of Australia in security law and practice. Steven has published a number of articles on commercial subjects. He has lectured for the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 1989-2008, lectured in the Master and Doctorate courses at UTS in corporations, finance and securities law from 1989-1995, and is currently lecturing in the College of Law Masters course in commercial drafting and business structuring
Janine Thompson
Janine is a Partner in the Forensic team within McGrathNicol, specialising in dispute advisory and forensic investigations. A Chartered Accountant with almost 20 years of dedicated forensic experience and four years of international audit experience, she has led and worked on numerous dispute advisory engagements including accounting reconstructions, interpretation of accounting standards, agreement vetting, business valuations, pre-litigation dispute consulting, independent determinations, post-acquisition disputes, professional negligence claims and the quantification of economic loss. Janine has undertaken a range of investigations in Australia involving bribery and corruption, fraud, misappropriation of assets, employee and director misconduct and other forms of inappropriate behaviour in business. Her work encompasses litigation and actions brought in the Federal and State Courts, as well as ADR forums such as arbitration and mediation.
Ben Motro
Ben’s primary area of expertise is in employment and industrial law. Ben provides advice to clients in all areas of employment law, industrial relations and workplace health and safety, and in a variety of industries, including the IT, retail, manufacturing, food & beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Ben has significant experience advising on and preparing employment contracts, enterprise agreements, deeds of release and employer policies. He also assists clients in litigious matters, including acting for clients in unfair dismissal, general protections and discrimination law matters. Ben also has extensive litigation experience in restraint of trade matters, disputes concerning the protection of confidential information, and other employment contract disputes
Ian Bennett
Ian is an experienced workplace lawyer specialising in employee relations, work health and safety (WHS) and coronial inquests. He provides practical and pragmatic advice to help employers effectively manage complex legal issues arising in the workplace. Ian assists clients to effectively manage issues and develop strategies that look at the bigger picture and mitigate potential flow-on effects (such as public relations, commercial arrangements, insurance and regulatory compliance). He commonly advises on matters involving discrimination, long-term absenteeism, bullying and harassment, fitness for duties, dismissal disputes, industrial instrument interpretation, restraint of trade, policy and procedure development and WHS investigation, prosecution and enforceable undertakings. While completing his tertiary studies, Ian worked as a volunteer law clerk at a community legal centre and as a research assistant for a Sydney-based barrister. He was also employed in a part-time capacity as a paralegal in a general law practice. Ian became part of Sparke Helmore's graduate program in February 2011, completing rotations in the Insurance (CTP/Public Liability Major Claims) and Commercial (Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution) practice groups before permanently joining the Workplace team
Ben Gottlieb
Ben is a Senior Associate with experience in both employment and work health and safety. Ben assists and advises clients on a broad range of matters in these areas, including employment disputes, enterprise agreement bargaining, industrial disputes, WHS incidents, safety related prosecutions, and workplace discrimination disputes, among others. Ben’s work has given him exposure to a wide range of commercial and public matters, working most commonly with clients in the government, construction, engineering, and electrical sectors. Before practising as a solicitor, Ben worked as an Associate to a Member of the Fair Work Commission and as an adviser at the Federal Court. Ben has a passion for litigation and appears in a broad range of court and tribunal jurisdictions.
Alex Ottaway
Alex is a Special Counsel in the Sydney Construction and Infrastructure group of HWL Ebsworth Lawyers. He has over 12 years’ experience as a solicitor specialising in the resolution of disputes involving construction and infrastructure projects. He advises and acts for participants in diverse industries such as infrastructure, industrial plants, resources, energy, advanced manufacturing, and housing. He has practised in Sydney and in London.
Shannon Hellyer
Shannon is a Senior Associate in the Sydney Construction and Infrastructure Group of HWL Ebsworth Lawyers. He has more than 9 years' experience specialising in contentious construction matters. Throughout his career he has practised in Newcastle, Sydney and London. Shannon is presenting on the topic of 'Contractual Interpretation in 2022 and beyond'.
Tony de Govrik
Tony de Govrik is a senior corporate lawyer with over 35 years post admission practical experience in the areas of companies and securities industry law, regulation of the securities industry, commercial law, corporate governance and company secretarial practice. This includes 19 years employment with the Australian Stock Exchange ("ASX") in various positions - the last of which was Manager of the Legal Department and Group Company Secretary. During his employment with ASX he was seconded for 2 years to the London Stock Exchange to gain international experience. Tony has spoken regularly in Australia and overseas on corporate and securities industry law, corporate governance issues, legal compliance and professional ethics including at the inaugural Corporate Counsel World Summit in Vancouver, Canada in 2009. Post ASX Tony has been contracted to a number of listed public companies in the role of Corporate Counsel and Company Secretary. He has also had a lengthy involvement with the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association ("ACLA") - a professional association for in-house legal counsel - where he acted for over 13 years in various capacities including as National President (for 3 years), General Counsel, Company Secretary and Director of Legal Affairs & Communications. Tony now acts as a consultant to in-house legal departments and as an adjunct lecturer in the Masters of Applied Law Program (In-house Practice) at the College of Law. For 2 years Tony wrote a monthly column for Australasian Legal Business (ALB) magazine on issues of particular interest to the in-house legal profession in Australia. For over 12 years he was also the editor of ACLA's journal, The Australian Corporate Lawyer. Tony is a former Law Society Councillor and an Honorary Life Member of ACLA (now ACC Australia).
Kiri Brain
Kiri Brain is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Turks, a specialist commercial law firm. She has established a strong reputation in the insurance, commercial and banking sector. She oversees the day-to-day operations of the business, developing an ongoing vision for the firm's future, along with creating and implementing successful strategies and systems with all stakeholders. Prior to becoming CEO, Kiri was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at an international accounting and business advisory firm - Nexia Australia. Her most recent successes have been winning Executive of the Year - 2020, Women in Law Awards, and COO of the Year - 2019 Executive Awards.