Ethics, Professional Skills & Practice Management, Over Lunch, Over 3 Weeks
Wanting to square away all your compulsory CPD points before the end of March? Attend these 3 all-encompassing hour-long sessions either online or on demand. They will fit perfectly into your busy schedule as you can have some lunch while you enhance your practice. You will refresh your knowledge of the solicitor conduct rules, strengthen your personal productivity and walk away with tips on how to draft your contracts to prepare for whatever may come your way. WEB232N02Z
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1 unit in Ethics and Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Practice Management and Business Skills
1 unit in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
Session 1
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Attend this seminar to learn about ethical tips and traps in light of the solicitors conduct rules with renowned barrister, Louise Mathias. In attending this seminar, you will reinvigorate your ethical principles and stride through your daily practice with confidence. WEB232N02AZ
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
1.00pm to 2.00pm Stop Looking Over Your Shoulder – Ethics Unwrapped
- What keeps you up at night: the Conduct Rules?
- Ethical fading: how to overcome it?
- Stop looking over your shoulder: how and why?
Presented by Louise Mathias, Multidisciplinary Barrister, Mediator [Harvard],FDRP, Leadership Coach & Business Consultant, The Confident Leader Blueprint
Register here for Session 1 only
Session 2
Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Do you struggle with long, unproductive days at work? Hear from specialist Therese Linton on how you can enhance your productivity and bring about the best results for you and your clients. WEB232N02BZ
Practice Management and Business Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Personal Productivity Masterclass
- Understand Personal Prioritisation: learn how to prioritise all your activities and why only 80% of your time should be spent doing important and urgent activities
- Time boxing: learn how to effectively manage emails; create space in your day for the most important activities; and limit the time spent on distractions
- Reminder flags: learn a step-by-step method to setting up reminder flags that actually work
- Monthly Matter Milestones: learn about the importance of a monthly matter milestone list and how to avoid common mistakes to give you visibility of deadlines in plenty of time to get the work done
- Daily Book: learn simple techniques to identify and prioritise your work in a few minutes every day
Presented by Therese Linton, Founder and Principal, Basalt Group
Register here for Session 2 only
Session 3
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Do you struggle with the nitty, gritty of clauses in your contract formulation? Attend this session with Angus Macinnis and learn how to consolidate your boilerplate clauses and recitals. No-one ever expects them to be important until, very suddenly, they are, so learn from this seminar to amplify your drafting skills. WEB232N02CZ
Professional Skills
1.00pm to 2.00pm Drafting Parts of a Contract No-One Ever Reads
- Contractual boilerplate clauses
- The role of Recitals
- Dispute resolution clauses
Presented by Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers
Register here for Session 3 only
Presenters
Louise Mathias
Louise has blazed her own trail in life and law by being authentic, honest and courageous proving that the best person you can be, is the best version of yourself. She started in law as a solicitor in 2010, after spending 30 years outside of law in a wide variety of businesses and before law, she worked 15 years as Medical Specialist Practice Manager (she dropped out of high school). She remains a barrister, accepting mediation briefs only and Leadership coaching and high-performance teams consulting. Her own superpowers are her ability to see the habits, mindsets and limiting beliefs that “can sabotage even the most sophisticated person, process or teams’, which means she can quickly identify what’s causing your mediations, leadership and teams to go off the rails. From there she customizes roadmap for clear and simple actionable steps that will have your leaders, lawyers and teams, performing like pros, and best of all, enjoying the process.
Therese Linton
Therese Linton is a global leader in legal project management and legal process improvement. Check out www.basaltgroup.global. As part of the work Therese does training and coaching lawyers in Legal Project Management, she discovered that most lawyers have not been introduced to personal productivity concepts that many other professionals take for granted. So, she gathered her selection of the ’best of the best’ personal productivity tools and now the Personality Productivity Skills session is one of the most popular that she delivers. Therese is uniquely positioned with extensive academic credentials and a project delivery career spanning more than 3 decades. She was a Lecturer for Sydney University’s prestigious Master of Project Management for 7 years and also lectured in Legal Project Management for the College of Law for 3 years. She has written three books – Project Management Essentials, Cengage 2014, Legal Project Management, LexisNexis 2014., and the new Amazon best seller The POSITIVE Lawyer Mindset
Angus Macinnis
Angus Macinnis has a broad commercial practice with a focus on dispute resolution, and in particular, on employment and work health and safety law, and intellectual property law. He advises employers and employees on all aspects of employment law, from drafting contracts and employment policies, to advising on employment related disputes, to dealing with employment and safety regulators. He has a particular interest in the employment law aspects of social media use and has published in this area in publications including the Law Society Journal, The New Lawyer, and the Internet Law Bulletin.