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Issues covered include: flat fee billing, Uniform Law, costs recovery
Protect yourself and your practice by making sure that you have the right skills in your toolkit for this critically important area that is vital to a healthy lawyer/client relationship. Learn how to perfect your costs orders, be fair and transparent and tax and assess costs the right way through a practical and interactive workshop, all while earning your compulsory CPD units at the same time.
Attend and earn 3 CPD points including:
1 point in Competency Area 1: Practice Management
1 point in Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
1 point in Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
This seminar was recorded in WA on 27 March 2019
Chair: Jacqueline Brown, Legal Practitioner Director, Lynn and Brown Lawyers
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: How to Make the Transition to a Flat Fee Billing Structure and the Potential Benefits to your Practice
Presented by GiGi Visscher, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
3.00pm to 4.00pm: An Eye to the Introduction of the Uniform Law Projected for 1 July 2019 and What it Means for your Practice
Presented by Sandra Costopoulos, Legal Officer in the Rapid Resolution Team, The Legal Practice Board of WA
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Improving Costs Recovery in Litigation
Presented by Richard Graham, Legal Practitioner Director, Vogt Graham Lawyers