CPD Core Competency Areas for All Lawyers on 6 March
Issues covered include: financial reports, accounting concepts, difficult colleagues, oversight, inadvertent mistakes
Description
Do you know in detail how to deftly handle oversights and mistakes? Can you diffuse a workplace conflict? Can you speak the language of financial reports and accounting concepts? These are the sorts of often overlooked issues that can put you ahead of the pack or leave you falling behind. Attend and put yourself in a position to succeed.
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 6 March 2019
Chair: Nick Murfett, Director, Murfett Group
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Is Your Practice Making Any Money?
- Understanding financial reports: balance sheet, profit & loss statements
- Accounting concepts
- Other management accounts your practice needs
Presented by GiGi Visscher, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Managing Difficult Colleagues or Bosses
- Dealing with passive aggressive behaviour
- Bullies, backstabbers and bigots
- High conflict personalities
Presented by Jo Alilovic, Director, 3D HR Legal and Katrina Alilovic, Psychologist, Mt Lawley Counselling Centre
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: How to Deal with an Oversight or Inadvertent Mistake
- Ethical principles and professional conduct issues
- Benefits of coming clean immediately
- Putting it in practice: What to do when you become aware of a mistake
- Common scenarios and possible options
- Case law
Presented by Ashley Macknay, Director, MDS Legal