CPD Core Competency Areas for Family Lawyers
Issues covered include: Arbitrate, mediate, arbitration agreement, mediation, alternate dispute resolution, employee in family legal practice, technology, social media, email security, the cloud.
Description
We have laid out the key core competency areas you can focus on to square away your CPD points for the year while boosting your practice. Join a panel of specialists to give you the straight talk and skills to make you a more successful family lawyer in 2019 and beyond. From dispute resolution to employment issues your practice simply cannot ignore to the gifts and the curses of technology, don’t miss this opportunity to fuel your practice’s success in the year to come.
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 12 March 2019
Chair: Elizabeth Needham, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
Competency Area 2: Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: How to Arbitrate or Mediate: a Practical Guide
- Requirement to consider alternate avenues of resolution of disputes
- The merits and misconceptions of arbitration and mediation
- Costs benefit analysis of litigation as against alternate dispute resolution options
- Step by step guide for arbitration including the arbitration agreement
- Mediation and practical considerations
Presented by Kim Wilson SC, In-house Counsel, Arbitrator & Mediator; Accredited Specialist in Family Law, Robyn Hadley, Consultant and Mediator; Accredited Specialist in Family Law and Adam Somerville-Brown, Consultant; Accredited Specialist in Family Law, Kim Wilson & Co, Family Lawyers
Competency Area 1: Practice Management
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Employee Engagement in the Family Legal Practice
- Who can you trust? Tips for choosing the right employees
- If lawyers are from Mars and administrative staff members are from Venus: How do you address the difference between the roles?
- Show me the money. Is this the best way to reward performance?
- Keeping the wheels spinning: Creating a vision for your firm that will keep your staff motivated and engaged
- Having difficult conversations and how to address poor performance
- Looking after the whole person
- Who’s looking after the employer? The importance of self-preservation
Presented by Lara Anstie, Partner, Clairs Keeley Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Competency Area 3: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
4.15pm to 5.15pm: The Ethical Dangers of Technology in Family Law
- What dangers lurk in social media
- Why Linkedin may not be the innocent bystander
- Email insecurity
- Lost in the cloud
Presented by Catherine Leach, Managing Director, Leach Legal