CPD Compulsory Units for All Lawyers on 26 March
Issues covered include: client relationships, managing mistakes or oversights, practice management, ethics, professional skills
Description
Much is asked of a lawyer. The legal side of things is just one aspect of a successful practice. In order to thrive you also need to know how to recover from an oversight or a mistake, maintain longstanding and successful client relationships, and ensure that your practice matches your goals and vision for your career. Gain your core CPD units while ensuring that your practice stays on track in each of these critical areas.
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 seminar was recorded in NSW on 26 March 2019
Chair: Paul Taylor, Director, Pattison Hardman
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Maintaining Effective Client Relations
The client is always right… or are they? Balancing a client’s interests with an ethical practice and avoiding client dissatisfaction is a skill that requires mastery. Explore how to maintain that balance to ensure you have satisfied clients and a successful, and ethical, practice.
Presented by Peter Godkin, Barrister, 7 Garfield Barwick Chambers
Practice Management & Business Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Aligning Business Vision with Personal Vision
- What is your personal vision? What do you want to get out of life now?
- Wheel of Life analysis: understanding where you are and where you want to be
- What is your business vision? What do you want to get from your work?
- Do they align or is there a mismatch?
- Practical steps and options to create change
Presented by Malcolm Bersten, Owner Principal, The Alternative Board
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: How to Deal with an Oversight or Inadvertent Mistake
- Ethical principles and Solicitors Conduct rules
- Dealing with Legal Services
- Case law, war stories and ethical dilemmas
- Putting it in practice: what to do when you become aware of a mistake
- Common scenarios and possible options
Presented by Elizabeth Picker, Barrister, Edmund Barton Chambers
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