Ethics, Professional Skills and Practice Management for Personal Injury Lawyers
Created especially for Workers Compensation lawyers. Attend this seminar to tick the Mandatory CPD box well in advance of the 31 March deadline. You’ll obtain guidance on understanding your ethical duties to ensure you are practising according to your professional obligations, undertaking a financial health check for your practice and also obtain the latest information about legal costs in personal injury matters. 2211W04
Description
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 program is based on WA legislation
This conference will be followed by a Networking Drinks Reception
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm Legal Costs in Personal Injury Matters – Considerations in Maximising Recovery
- Practical tips on party/party costs and solicitor/client costs recovery
- Uniform Law; costs considerations
- Catastrophic injury claims and/or special costs applications – interplay between the two and when you may need both
Presented by Amy Pascoe, Legal Practitioner Director, Pascoe Legal
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm Financial Fundamentals for Personal Injury Practices
- Financial recording and reporting
- Understanding financial statements
- Why monthly management reports?
- Work in progress measurement and management
- When things go wrong
Presented by Dino Travaglini, Principal, Travaglini Corporate Advisory
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm Walking the Tightrope of Acting Ethically and in Accordance with the Principles of Professional Conduct
- Overview of your ethical duties and professional responsibilities
- Duties to the Court
- A solicitor's ethical obligations in their dealings with fellow practitioners
- Conflict between a client's interests and the interests of the solicitor
- Misconduct outside private practice
- Minimising the risk of a complaint
Presented by Greg McIntyre SC, Michael Kirby Chambers
5.15 pm Networking Drinks
Presenters
Brian Nugawela
Brian presents at Legalwise Seminars events on torts, psychiatric injury and workers' compensation. Brian's practice areas include tort law (including professional negligence); workers compensation and Comcare, general civil and commercial litigation, Insurance disputes (including income protection and TPD insurance)and appeals. Some of Brian's notable cases include Kuhl v Zurich Financial Services Australia Ltd [2011] HCA 11 and Newcrest Mining Limited v Thornton [2012]HCA 60 and Westrupp v BIS Industries [2015] FCAFC where the Full Federal Court interpreted the HCA's decision in Comcare v PVYW oncerning statutory concept of "injury".
Amy Pascoe
Amy Pascoe is one of Western Australia’s leading costs practitioners, having appeared in costs matters in most jurisdictions in WA both on a solicitor/client and party/party basis. Amy has also provided assistance and advice in complex domestic and International Arbitrations and has provided expert evidence in Federal Court costs matters. In 2021 Amy was elected to the Legal Practice Board, and since that time has served on the Professional Affairs Committee, the Admissions and Registrations Committee and the Legal Services and Complaints Committee. She has also been a member of the Law Society’s Costs Committee since 2016 and is at present, the Deputy Convenor of that Committee. Amy is the Legal Practitioner Director of Pascoe Legal, a firm practising within the exclusive area of the law of costs.
Dino Travaglini
Dino is a director of Travaglini Corporate Advisory, a boutique chartered accounting and corporate advisory firm which specialises in advising distressed businesses and debt restructuring. The key services that his firm provides is: business restructuring and turnaround, debt and financial restructuring, bank and lender negotiation, regulated debt management advice, insolvency advice, independent expert reports and safe harbour advice. His career spans over 30 years, as a registered liquidator and trustee in bankruptcy acting in formal corporate and personal insolvency administrations and corporate restructure. Most of which was as a partner or principal with national chartered accounting and restructure firms, Moore Stephens, Grant Thornton and Cor Cordis. Relevant to today’s presentation, his work requires him to understand the businesses, and their financial position, including professional services practices.
Greg McIntyre SC
Greg McIntyre SC was admitted to practice in 1974. He gained extensive experience in the first 15 years of practice in criminal law and also practised between 1984 and 1988 in Family Law. Greg was Principal Legal Officer, Aboriginal Legal Service of WA, 1988-90. From 1990-92 he worked in general litigation at Corser & Corser. He has practised solely as a Barrister since 1993. Greg has developed a High Court and Federal Court advocacy practice in the fields of Native Title, Human Rights, Immigration, Environmental law and Administrative law generally. In recent years he has also been engaged in commercial litigation, personal injury cases and legal professional conduct cases. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2002 and since that time he has been a member of the Professional Affairs Committee of the Legal practice Board. He was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame in 2001 and the University of Western Australia in 2016. He at the University of Notre Dame between 2000 and 2012 and in 2011 lectured at the University of WA on the subject of Indigenous Peoples and the Law and in 2007 lectured in Constitutional Law at Notre Dame. He was awarded the Australian Human Rights Commission Law Award in 2011.
Venue
Parmelia Hilton
Level 1, Meeting Room, 14 Mill Street
Perth 6000
WA
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - The Esplanade Station
Bus Interchange - St Georges Terrace Cloisters Green
Parking information
Parmilia Hilton - Valet Parking only - Click here to view rates.
Convention Centre - 100 metres from Parmelia Hilton. Click here to view rates.