Recognising Commercial Risk and Understanding Expert Reports
Master how to expertly balance the push and pull between legal risk, commercial risk, and profit. 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. WEB229N51EZ
Description
Attend and earn 1.5 CPD units in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
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
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
Presenters
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.