Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management for All Lawyers
Watch live online or view the on-demand recording at your convenience to square away your core CPD points with a trio of practical sessions that will all have a positive impact on your practice. Polish up on managing ethical conflicts between court and client. Master the art of professional conduct in an increasingly online world. Dedicate time to pursuing a healthy work/life balance and ensure you achieve optimum results in all facets of your practice. WEB2211N12Z
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
Chair: Christine Perry, Director, Pure Legal
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
2.00pm to 3.00pm Ethical Conflicts Between Court and Client
- Managing ‘unethical’ or difficult clients
- Disclosure requirements wherein duty to court trumps duty to client
- Ethical requirements/duty to client when working from a home office
- Evidence rules for junior solicitors
Presented by Jeremy Morris SC, 13th Floor St James Hall; Recommended Insurance Senior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2018
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Professionality in the Online Environment
- Know the limitations of the forum (written, visual) and what you want your audience to do with the information conveyed
- Secure the interest and obtain the inquiry, rather than giving away significant intellectual property with no return
- Be accurate (bring in the Professional Standards legislation where necessary)
- Remember the risks associated with the forum you are engaging in (including potential liability for misleading and deceptive conduct)
Presented by Andrew Bailey, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Break
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm Promoting a Healthy Work/Life Balance for Your Practice to Achieve Optimum Results
- Best ways to manage day-to-day stress
- Encouraging a work/life balance to ensure success
- Recognising destructive behaviour in your colleagues and what to do
Presented by Rick Cullen, Director, Cullen MacLeod
Presenters
Christine Perry
Chris Perry is the principal of Pure Legal and is an accredited specialist in commercial litigation and insolvency. Chris’ practice is predominantly operating in the commercial litigation and insolvency sectors in the Supreme Court of NSW and Federal Court of Australia. Chris has acted as solicitor/advocate on public examinations and cases involving product liability, contractual, building, professional negligence, equitable claims and fiduciary duties and a myriad of Corporations Act matters. Having a background in larger firms working on significant litigation on behalf of banks and large corporate entities, Chris then moved to a boutique practice as a partner after starting a family where her practice has continued to enjoy a prestigious client base whilst also working on many voluntary administrations, liquidations and receivership for liquidators, directors and creditors. Chris now enjoys a varied practice and has for the past 7 months been involved in a significant trial in the Supreme Court of New South Wales on a corporate crime matter which is continuing and where the solicitor acting for the company has also been joined as a party and was the subject of recording listening device warrants.
Jeremy Morris SC
Jeremy Morris was called to the Bar in 1995. He previously worked for 4.5 years at Abbott Tout Russell Kennedy, initially as a commercial solicitor, then in commercial litigation. Since he came to the Bar, he has had a varied practice including appearances at inquests, criminal proceedings, common law personal injury cases, medical negligence cases, commercial cases, tax debt recovery proceedings and disciplinary proceedings for solicitors and medical practitioners. He spent two years on a New South Wales Bar Association Professional Conduct Committee and is a current member of Bar Council. He regularly lectures for the New South Wales Bar Association to barristers seeking to sit the Bar examinations. He also acts as tutor in the Bar Association Practice Course. He is part-way through a Masters of Tax Law at the University of Sydney.
Andrew Bailey
Andrew Bailey commenced practice at the Bar in August 2014 after 12 years in practice as a solicitor: initially in Queensland, but principally in New South Wales since 2003, with responsibility for the conduct of matters in Victoria. Andrew accepts briefs in most areas of practice: particularly administrative law, bankruptcy and insolvency, commercial, construction, and equity. In his time as a solicitor, he has had some familiarity with costs litigation on behalf of firms he has worked for. This has developed into a discrete area of Andrew's practice at the Bar. Having an undergraduate degree in psychology, Andrew maintains an academic interest in psychiatric injury as a discrete legal topic.
Rick Cullen
Rick has wide litigation experience at all levels in the Western Australian and Federal Courts, most recently in corporations law, contract, partnership and land law cases., An active member of the legal profession, Rick was a councillor of the Law Society of Western Australia for 13 years, and president of the Law Society of Western Australia in 1992. He has been a member and Chair of numerous committees over the years., Rick was made a life member of the Law Society of WA in 2005 for his contribution to law and the legal profession in WA., Rick has been a director of a number of private and public companies over the years., Rick is a shareholder of the Cullen family winery in Margaret River, and with his wife Bettina Mangan has established 65 hectares of vines in the Margaret River area., Rick's other interests include tennis, gardening, and playing the piano and guitar.