CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 13 March
Issues covered include: cyber security, data breaches, technology, blockchain, cyber risk: hacking, phishing, scamming, ransomware, National Data Breach Scheme.
Description
The legal industry is evolving. Artificial intelligence, robo-advice, blockchain technology – all are advancing further into the industry every day, impacting the way law is practised and creating entirely new ethical issues to consider. Cyber security is now a top concern for law firms in ways it never has been before. The question is, will you evolve and find success in this new era of real and inevitable change?
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 13 March 2019
Chair: Simon Owen, Principal, Grantleigh House
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Cyber Security within Law Firms and Protecting Your Clients’ Data
- How to hold and how to release data
- What you can do with data
- What happens if there is a breach?
- Examples of breach
Presented by David Thompson, Barrister, Fourth Floor Chambers
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: A Lawyer in a Digital World: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Your Practice
- A background to blockchain: How does the technology actually work?
- Practicing law in the future with blockchain and augmented reality technologies
- Appreciating the influence of technology on client expectations and lawyer's legal practice
- How can lawyers better position themselves for a new practice of law?
Presented by Zahn Nel, Director, CT Group
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Ethics and Cyber Risk
- Overview of cyber risk: hacking, phishing, scamming, ransomware
- What ethical and professional obligations arise?
- Diligent and competent
- Confidentiality
- Duty of care/standard of care
- Payment of ransom?
- Law Council of Australia Cyber Precedent
- Review of some recent examples
- Safety Measures
- Notification requirements
- National Data Breach Scheme
Presented by Cathryn Urquhart, Professional Skills Trainer and Coach